By Muhammad Ibrahim, Sokoto
Governor Ahmed Aliyu of sokoto state has been conferred with the most media friendly Governor award by the Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, in recognition of the developmental projects he executed which were transmitted live on NTA.
Press Secretary to the governor Abubakar Bawa in a statement said Director General of NTA Abdulhamid Salihu Dembos Presented the award to Governor Aliyu during the 2024 NTA cultural display held in the premises of NTA sokoto network.
According to him, since the inception of his administration in the last year, Governor Aliyu has been executing laudable programmes which NTA has transmitted live for the larger society to know.
Represented by the Executive Director Administration and Training, Muhammad Fathu, Mr Dembos lauded the patronage NTA enjoys from the state government under leadership of Governor Ahmed Aliyu.
“The award is in appreciation of the patronage we in the NTA enjoy from the present administration”
Responding, Governor Ahmed Aliyu described the award as a Clarion call to deliver more dividends of democracy to all the nooks and crannies of the state.
He reassured his administration’s determination to partner the media in order to project the people oriented projects his administration is providing to people of the state.
Represented by the state commissioner for local government Ibrahim Dadi Adare, governor Aliyu thanked the NTA for identifying with his administration and called for the sustainance of such gesture.
The representative of the governor and the state commissioner for local government Ibrahim Dadi Adare was also conferred with a title of GARKUWAN NTA by the NTA management.
