By Collins Yakubu-hammer
Abuja – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Mr Yakubu Dogara, has commended the publisher of Tozali Magazine, Maimuna Abubakar, for organising the ‘Tozali People’s Award’ and for recognising distinguished Nigerians.
Dogara gave the commendation during his opening remarks in Abuja at the “2016 Tozali Magazine People’s Award.”
He appreciated the organisers for bringing out distinguished personalities to be honoured.
The Speaker explained why he accepted to chair the occasion, saying “I accepted to chair this occasion because it is in our place to support entrepreneuship; if we have thousands of entrepreneurs doing businesses, imagine how many of our brothers and sisters will be employed.
“Secondly, I was told that this will touch the area of charity to the Internally Displaced People in the North Eastern part of the country.”
Dogara then congratulated the Governor of Adamawa, Alhaji Bindo Jibrilla “for the great work you are doing for the people of your state.”
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the theme for this year’s edition of the Tozali Magazine People’s Award, the fourth in the series is “Creativity and Philanthropy.”
Tozali, which literally means “the eye liner” in Hausa, is a magazine that showcases events, activities, issues, people, places, fashion and style and other contemporary issues.