First Lady wins Women Empowerment Award
The First Lady, Mrs Lordina Mahama, has been adjudged the winner of the Women Empowerment Award by the Abuja-based Organisation of the African Achievers Award.
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At a high-profile awards ceremony in Abuja at the weekend, Mrs Mahama was highly commended for achieving commendable milestones in her work to improve the lot of women in the field of socio-economic development, enterprise and motivation of others.
The awards ceremony, which was well attended by leading figures and awardees from most parts of Africa, including government officials and diplomats, is the sixth in the series, having been previously held in Kenya, South Africa and Ghana.
Other awardees
Other high-profile award winners included the African Development Bank, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, leading figures from Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Somalia and the ANC of South Africa, including Mathew Phosa, who worked closely with Nelson Mandela.
Mr Phosa received the Lifetime Achievements Award.
Award winners were selected from government, business, the private sector, industries, trade, new technology, education, Science and other human endeavours, new frontiers and the diaspora sectors.
Other award winners from Ghana were Zoomlion Company and Mr Slyvanus Tettey Tamaklo, Ghana’s High Commissioner in Harare.
Mr Tamaklo and Ghana’s Permanent Representative to the ECOWAS, Mr William Awinador-Kanyinge, jointly received the award on behalf of the First Lady.
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Mr Tamaklo was also given a Special Award for promoting education. He was also recognised for the work on alternative energy, which he and his 20-year-old son, Elorm Tamaklo, an undergraduate of a university in the U.S.A, are engaged in. He was accompanied by his wife, Aisha, and son, Elorm, when he received the awards.
Elorm is currently on a sabbatical leave and establishing energy centres in some villages in Ghana.
After receiving the awards, Mr Tamaklo said Dr Kwame Nkrumah awakened the world with his historic words that the independence of Ghana was meaningless unless it was linked with the independence of other Africans.
Drawing the parallel for the present, he asked: “Can we truly say that Africa is free unless we can ensure that Africa is able to mobilise our potential to provide electrical power and energy for the development needs of our countries and our people?”
He added, “Without power we are not free.”