This award goes to the Cooperative Federation in Nigeria which has generally demonstrated a high performance across various metrics, both qualitative and quantitative. That have considerably changed their State Cooperative landscape, taking it to new heights by reaching out to new cooperative members and clients, offering game changing initiatives to drive cooperative development and growth, adopting inclusiveness by bringing more people into the cooperative space, made use of new media to enhance services and helped drive growth through a stronger coop sector which plays a pro-active and leading role in the socio-economic development of their state