For his contributions towards the achievement of the SDGs, Bauchi State Governor, Sen Bala Abdulkadir Mohammed has been nominated among the personalities to receive the 2019/2020 Nigerian Sustainable and Good Governance Presidential Awards. She further explained that “The award of the 2019/2020 to receive by our Governor was in recognition of his outstanding commitments to noble ideals of SDG’s”. According to her, with the inception of the present administration in the state, the state SDGs office has recently officially handed over the completed 2018 SDGs projects executed in selected communities in 16 Local Government Areas of the state. He stated that ” For your information, Maryam Bagel was from the APC but I found her very competent. She was among those who supported me to become the elected Governor of Bauchi state”.

Source: Nigerian Tribune December 19, 2019 03:00 UTC