L-R:Biyi Ashiru-Mobolaji, Executive Director, Operation, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; Femi Asenuga, Managing Director, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; Abiodun Ajala, Chairman, Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria (GPN); Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, Group Chairman, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, and Odutayo Odusanya, Secretary, GPN, during the investiture of Dr. Ogunbiyi as grand patron, Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria (GPN) at Mutual Benefit Insurance office, Lagos on Friday.
BY NKECHI NAECHE-ESEZOBOR–The Group Chairman, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, has been described as an exemplary leadership and professional ethos by the Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria(GPN) and was today honoured as Grand Patrol by the Guild.
In his remark, the Chairman, GPN, Abiodun Ajala, in his speech said, Dr. Ogunbiyi was considered for the honour due to his exemplary leadership and professional ethos.
“We are highly delighted on this memorable day to present a great and noble businessman, a patriotic philanthropist, a promoter of national productivity, as well as a scholar of repute, committed to a viable, productive business-friendly Nigeria.
L-R: Odutayo Odusanya, Secretary,Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria (GPN); Biyi Ashiru-Mobolaji, Executive Director, Operation, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; Abiodun Ajala, Chairman, GPN ; Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, Group Chairman, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, and Femi Asenuga, Managing Director, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; during the event held at Mutual Benefit Insurance office, Lagos on Friday.
“Dr. Akinade Ogunbiyi has endeared himself to us and the larger society by virtue of his wealth of corporate and patriotic leadership,” he submitted.
Dr. Ogunbiyi while accepting the honour, appreciated members of the Guild and all media practitioners for supporting his brand and that of Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, stressing that the media practitioners helped prepared him for the position he occupied today.
L-R: Femi Asenuga, Managing Director, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; Seye Kehinde, founder/Publisher, City People Magazine; Abiodun Ajala, Chairman, Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria (GPN); Dr. Akin Ogunbiyi, Group Chairman, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc; John Ajayi, Publisher/CEO, Marketing Edge Publications Ltd; Pastor Gbenga Ogunko, and Biyi Ashiru-Mobolaji, Executive Director, Operation, Mutual Benefits Assurance Plc, during the investiture of Dr. Ogunbiyi as grand patron, Guild of Photojournalists Nigeria (GPN) at Mutual Benefit Insurance office, Lagos on Friday.
He maintained that with the support received from the media, Mutual Benefits Assurance has tremendously grew as it presently provides jobs for over 5,000 Nigerians.
He pledged to continue supporting the media industry to the best of his ability, whilst calling for election of competent individuals into all strata of governments.
