Fayemi, Fashola, kale others bag Excellence in Public Service Award

The Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Kayode Fayemi, has received the Businessday Newspaper’s Excellence in Public Service Award 2017, in recognition of the reforms and innovations that have repositioned the mining sector under his watch.
Other public servants that also bagged awards at the event, which held at the Ladi Kwali Hall, Sheraton Hotel, Abuja, include Minister of Power , Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde fashola (SAN); Minister of Agriculture, Chief Audu Ogbeh; Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr. Okechukwu Elenamah; Statistician General of the Federation, Dr. Yemi Kale; and the Executive Secretary of Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, Yewande Shadiku. (NIPC).
Former head of state, General Abdusalami Abubakar, while presenting the award to Fayemi, said his leadership of the Ministry of Mines and Steel Development had helped to inject a new lease of life into the country’s comatose minerals and mining sector.