The Director of Public Affairs (DPA) of the Nigerian
Communications Commission (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo, the Governor of Rivers State,
Nyeson Wike and Senators Godswill Akpabio and Dino Melaye as well as the Chief
of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai were honoured at the maiden awards
ceremony hosted by the Authority Newspapers for Excellence and Good Governance,
reports ITRealms.
For Mr. Ojobo, he was honoured with The Authority Newspaper
Public Affairs Spokesperson of the year 2016 at the ceremony presided over by former
old Anambra State Governor, Chief Chukwuemeka Ezeife, and keynote speaker,
Human Right Activist/Constitutional Lawyer, Chief Mike Ozekhome, was described
by Madu Onuorah, The Authority Managing Director, as painstaking before the
Board of Editors “took decisions to select the personalities we are honouring
today”.
He also told the audience that The Authority Newspaper Award
was “a celebration of God’s greatness, grace and the human power to dare the
impossible”.
In arriving at its decision to name Ojobo as Outstanding
Public Affairs Spokesperson of the year 2016, the Board of Editors of The
Authority described him as “a consummate communication driver of the critical
government agency in a milieu where legitimate expectations are high and
tempers short”.
Ojobo “has managed to bring winsome professionalism, unusual
humility and noteworthy grasp of his brief to deliver a five-star performance
and manage the high-octane volatility that is associated with his job”,
according to the citation at the event.
With over 28 years of experience in the telecommunications
sector covering areas such as Marketing, Customer Services, Institutional
Strengthening, License Administrations, Corporate Communication and Brand
Management, Ojobo started his career with the defunct Nigerian External
Telecommunications (NET) Limited as a Commercial Officer in August 1982 and by
1985 when Nigerian Telecommunications Limited (NITEL) was established he joined
and served at various times as Customer Services Manager in the Organisation.
He left NITEL in 1995 and went into Management &
Consulting Services until 1999. In March 2000, Ojobo joined NCC as Deputy
Director Projects in the office of the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC)/CEO. He
coordinated World Bank Consultancy for institutional strengthening and development
at NCC.
Further, Ojobo coordinated various times Telecom Service
Demand Study, carried out by Growing Business Foundation which served as a
prelude to the Digital Mobile Licence (DML) auction in 2001.
He later served as Deputy Director (Administration), 2002;
Head of Licensing and Zonal Operations, Acting Director, Human Capital and
Infrastructure and later substantive Director in the same department in January
2010. He was redeployed to the Public
Affairs Department as Director, Public Affairs in October 2012. He holds the
position till today.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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