“Giving honour to whom honour is due”, Market Speech, a business/entrepreneurship and economic magazine, a (publication of Soul Media Concept) gave the DG of SMEDAN, Alhaji Muhammad Nadada Umar, a Human Resources Award, in recognition of his support for human development and entrepreneurship. This added more feathers to his cap, as the D-G had in the past, received many other Awards.  

Speaking on the reason for the Award, the Publisher/Editor- in-Chief, Mr. Sunny Onovo Davids, said “We have always celebrated Alhaji Muhammad Nadada Umar in a closet. His good works speak for him. We are aware of his achievements, and have been waiting for a day like today to publicly express our feeling”. According to him, Market Speech and SMEDAN have similarities in that both are business-inclined. They both are out to promote economic activities both at the State and Federal levels.

Responding to the Award, the DG expressed his heartfelt gratitude for the honour bestowed on him. His words: ‘’I am dumbfounded, really touched, because I am receiving an award from people I did not even know. I am even more amazed because normally other publications that honour personalities, always ask the receiver to pay some amount of money, but this one was given to me “on a platter of gold””. He further said the Award would not make him proud, rather it would encourage him and give him more impetus and ginger him up to do more than he had been doing. The Director-General promised that SMEDAN would partner with the Market Speech Magazine in many areas.
Levi Anyikwa, Assistant Director (Corporate Affairs).