Managing Director of PR Redline, Lekan Ishola, has just
added a new feather of honour to his cap. He is the recipient of the 2017
edition of the West African Patriotic Leadership Gold Award.
The annual awards event is being organized by the Global
Vision Communications, Publishers of African Voice Magazine, in conjunction
with the International Association of Research Scholars and Administrators
(IARSA).
The West African Leadership Icon Awards, instituted over ten
years ago in Lome, Togo, is aimed at celebrating patriotic sons and daughters
of West Africa who manifest diligence, achievement, integrity and untiring
commitment to developing potentials in their professional callings.
While presenting the award in Lagos on Tuesday, Director of
Public Relations, IARSA, Mr. Amusa Wale Azeez, stated that the choice of Ishola
as the recipient of this year’s edition of the award was in recognition of his
outstanding career in the field of mass communication in the past two and half
decades as well as his self-effacing leadership style which emphasizes teamwork
and gives the younger generation ample opportunities to harness their talents,
learn the ropes and build confidence.
Past Nigerian recipients of the WAPLGA include Professor Olu
Akeusola, scholar, linguist and Provost of Michael Otedola College of Primary
Education; Alhaji Abdu Ahmed, Acting DG, Bureau of Public Procurement; Rt. Honourable Kenneth Okechukwu Emeakayi,
Chairman, PDP Anambra State and Chief Aloysius Ejikemenwa, Chairman, Board of
Trustees, Nigerians in Diaspora, Togo Chapter.
In his acceptance speech, the PR Redline boss thanked the
organizers for the honour.
His words: “We are humble to have been selected for this
award and we really appreciate your kind
words in recognizing our little achievements in the course of a career that
started, as you rightly said, about 25 years ago. I must place on record the fact that I have
never met your team in any way before today. Yes, we have received some awards
at PR Redline between 2014 and now, about ten different awards in both
individual and corporate categories, with a couple of them even coming from the
Lagos State Government. But, I must say that this has a very special place in
my heart and I am sincere about that.”
Ishola assured the team that PR Redline would continue to be
steered on the path of professionalism that earned him the recognition.
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