By Joyce Remi-Babayeju
Senior Special Assistant, SSA, to the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Minister, Dr. Samuel Udo Atang, has been awarded a fellowship of the FCT College of Education (CoE), Zuba, FCT.
Dr. Atang received the coveted fellowship award during the College’s third combined convocation ceremony in Zuba, yesterday.
The award letter revealed that Atang, who retired in September as pioneer Head of Service, FCT Civil Service. bagged the fellowships award due to his history of “hardwork work and dedication towards improving and sustaining Administrative standard for Civil Servants in FCT”.
Atang received the award alongside two other distinguished Nigerians, for contributions to the growth and development of the FCT and Nigeria.
The other fellowship awardees are Prof. Paulinus Chijeoke Okwelle, Executive Secretary, National Commission for Colleges of Education (NCCE), and Prof. Abdalla Uba Adamu of the Department of Information and Media Studies, Bayero University, Kano.
A total of 6,068, comprising 4,625 NCE regular, and 1,443 NCE part-time graduates were conferred with the Nigeria Certificate in Education at the convocation ceremony.
