By Saidu Idris
365Daily – Prominent construction company, Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, has won this this year’s Nigeria Association of Women Journalists (NWAOJ), ‘Corporate Social Responsibility company of the year 2021 award.’
The award was given to the company as part of programmes to mark the 32nd anniversary of NAWOJ.
The ceremony, which held at the prestigious International Conference Centre, Abuja, built by Julius Berger, attracted dignitaries from across the country.
To underscore the justification for the award to the company, the National President of NAWOJ, Comrade Ladi Bala, stated: “Julius Berger’s verified commitment to strong corporate social responsibility works continues to resonate helpfully nationwide to all of the company’s operational hosts and stakeholders at large.”
According to Comrade Ladi: “From its robust ‘Roll-Back-Malaria’ campaign, ‘Food for our Communities’ campaign to its Educational, Hospitals and other sundry Covid-19 effects mitigation donations since the pandemic began, Julius Berger’s CSR contributions continue to meaningfully express the company’s commitment to drive a sustainable, compassionate, and healthy human interface with the Nigerian society.
“Julius Berger’s Positive and Impactful Social contributions are explicitly visible everywhere for all to see, and NAWOJ urges you to keep the CSR flag flying ever higher”.
The Executive Director, Administration of Julius Berger Nigeria Plc, Alhaji Zubairu Ibrahim Bayi, represented the company’s Managing Director, Engr. Dr Lars Richter at the well-attended event.
In his remarks on behalf of the Managing Director of the company, Alhaji Bayi thanked NAWOJ for the recognition accorded Julius Berger by the body.
Bayi described NAWOJ as a respectable national body, which, being largely made up of well-educated, informed and responsible professionals and patriotic mothers generally known for its sensitivity and positive advocacy for social accountability and responsibility across the spectrum of the society.
He stated that there is no body more implicitly qualified than NAWOJ to have scrutinised the empirical data and given Julius Berger the meritorious and worthy award as Nigeria’s Corporate Social Responsibility Company of the Year.