Maureen Ideozu Bags 2022 Export Innovator Of The Year Award

In her acceptance speech, the Coordinator of the Federal Government’s Fifty Billion Naira Export Expansion Facility Programme, said, “It is instructive that I got a verse from my devotion this morning to sum up my attitude to recognition. Proverbs 27:2 ‘let someone else praise you, and not your own mouth: an outsider, and not your own lips’.

“I specially want to thank those among the over 100, who noticed our work and nominated me along with three others, also the tens of thousands who found me worthy of recognition as 2022 Export Innovator of the Year. I most sincerely commend Igbere TV the organisers, for running a process that offers ordinary people the opportunity of expressing their choices without influence or manipulation.”

“This award is dedicated to the millions of Nigerians in the non-oil export ecosystem, through whose resilience and robust activities, the country continues to absorb shocks to its economic base. My colleagues, Team EEFP, represented here by Hauwa, Ivy and Ahmad, this would not have been possible at all without you all. We did it! My family, mum and siblings represented here by Kingsley, who heard little of me in the tick of my busyness and my kids, Aidan and Kelly who learnt to start every conversation with Mom, “are you busy now”? Thank you for your love and understanding.  My dear friends, I appreciate your encouragement and objective feedback. I will not forget to thank my bosses who gave me the opportunity to serve as the Programme Coordinator and provided guidance and unwavering support all through, Mr Olusegun Awolowo, the immediate past CEO, Nigerian Export Promotion Council and His Excellency Otunba Niyi Adebayo, the Honourable Minister of Industry, Trade & Investment, Chairman of the Export Expansion Facility Programme Steering Committee.”

“Finally, my ultimate thanks go to God Almighty for finding me an instrument of worth.”