The Guardian metro editor wins human rights award | The Guardian Nigeria Information

Editor of The Guardian metro web page, Bertram Nwannekanma, yesterday, bagged the 2022 Greatest Human Rights Report awards by Human Rights Writers Affiliation of Nigeria (HURIWA).

The newspaper additionally obtained acknowledged on the group’s 15-year anniversary in Abuja, with the theme: “How Onerous Medicine Gasoline Election Violence In Nigeria.”

Whereas presenting the award, chairman of the event, Dr. Regulation Mefor, described media outfit as probably the most excellent newspapers in human rights report.

The prize was acquired by the Abuja Bureau Chief, Dr. Bridget Onochie, on behalf of the metro editor. Talking on the occasion, HURIWA Nationwide Coordinator, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko, famous that the primary stage of training, preceded by pre-school or nursery training, stays the muse of each nice nation.

He stated major training provides youngsters alternatives to develop their manipulative expertise for effectiveness within the society.

The HURIWA boss noticed: “Nigeria as a nation, requires satisfactory human and materials sources to enhance its social preserves and cultures, improve financial growth and reform the political construction. Subsequently, training is seen as a prerequisite for high quality manpower growth and creation of wealth, a positive path to success in life and repair to humanity.”

“There isn’t any gainsaying the truth that training could be very very important to the tempo of social, political and financial growth of any nation. Schooling is a key funding in any nation with monumental social and financial advantages accruing from it.

“This explains why one of many nationwide training objectives is the acquisition of applicable expertise and the event of psychological, bodily and social skills and competencies as gear for the person to reside and contribute to the event of the society (FRN, 2012).”

In his remarks, Chairman of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), Brig-Gen Mohammed Marwa (rtd), represented by the Secretary, Shedrach Haruna, reiterated that the organisation was working in the direction of peaceable 2023 elections and ridding Nigeria of illicit substances.

He stated: “For us as a nation, the election interval is stuffed with nervousness due to its attendant cycle of violence and social upheaval, usually attributable to unscrupulous politicians, who of their do-or-die effort to seize energy, resort to underhand ways, together with arming thugs to disrupt the electoral course of. Not solely do such behaviours disenfranchise others and forestall them from exercising their civic responsibility, they, inevitably, jeopardise peace and safety within the society.”

Additionally, Governor Samuel Ortom, who was represented by Michael Mku, counseled the HURIWA management for its solidarity with the federal government and the individuals of Benue Stat through the years.