CMD M.A.U.T.H. Prof. Bakari Bags Kwame Nkrumah Excellence Award

CMD M.A.U.T.H. Prof Bakari Bags Kwame Nkrumah Excellence Award

…Establishes College of Nursing Sciences M.A.U.T.H Yola, within a year with his appointment

From Adamu Mohammed Dodo

The Chief Medical Director, Modibbo Adama University Teaching Hospital, M.A.U.T.H Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria, Prof Adamu Bakari Girei has been bestowed with Kwame Nkrumah Grow Africa Excellence Award as the 2024 Icon of Medical Development in Nigeria, by Grow Africa Youth Initiative under the aegis of Pan-Africanism

The Grow Africa has recognised a set of criteria that Prof Bakari exceeded multiple times, demonstrated in his leadership skills, in hospital administration and management, innovation, community and stakeholder engagement; in other words, his detribalised contributions have gone far beyond the expectations.

Presenting the award, the President of Africa Grow,, Comrade Ozim Temple listed the terms of reference for conferring the award to include the following:

* Hard work and dedication to medical development and support to young people.

* High administrative acumen and selfless leadership ideology.

* Well-articulated policies driven by high administrative prudence and selfless leadership ideology evidenced in any office and/or assignment entrusted.

* Training and mentorship of upcoming doctors and other medical, health and allied professionals

* Teamplayer who carries everyone along in decision making irrespective of tribe, region, religion or gender

* Public servant with zero tolerance to corruption, nepotism or favoritism.

* Charity to the less privileged and the downtrodden in the society

* Exemplary lifestyle that promotes the African moral value worthy of emulation by the youth

Africa Grow has among its mission, to build the youth in leadership and entrepreneurship with a view to provide Africa with intellectually equipped youths to take the mantle of leadership

The Initiative is aiming at positioning the youth toward the 2063 agenda, which is Africa’s blueprint and master plan for transforming Africa into the global powerhouse of the future.

A continent’s strategic framework that is aimed to deliver on its goal for inclusive and sustainable development; a concrete manifestation of the Pan-Africa drive for unity, self-determination, freedom, progress and collective prosperity pursued under Pan-Africanism and African Renaissance,

The genesis of agenda 2063 was the realisation by African leaders that there was a need to refocus and reprioritise Africa’s agenda from the struggle against apartheid and the attainment of political independence for the continent, which had been the focus of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), the precursor of the African Union; and instead to priorities inclusive social and economic development, continental and regional, democratic governance and peace and security amongst other issues aimed at repositioning Africa to becoming a dominant player in the global arena.