• Sen. Tinubu upgraded to CON • Edun, Alake, Ifijeh, Onanuga, Shehu honoured with OON • Sen. Tinubu upgraded to CON • Edun, Alake, Ifijeh, Onanuga, Shehu honoured with OON • Akande, Osoba, others get CFR • CON for Uzodimma, Bello, AbdulRazaq, Oyetola Former Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku has been awarded the second highest national award of Grand Commander of Order of the Niger (GCON) by President Muhammadu Buhari. He is the only Nigerian nominated for that category on the list of 340 awardees for the various categories by the Federal Government through its Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs. The National Honours Award on the eve of President Buhari exit would be handed over to recipients without fanfare on Thursday at the ministry’s office in Abuja. On the list of awardees are outgoing ministers, governors (serving and former), judges and justices, royal fathers, business magnates, media leaders, artistes, sports men and women,…
• Edun, Alake, Ifijeh, Onanuga, Shehu honoured with OON• Akande, Osoba, others get CFRFormer Commonwealth Secretary-General Emeka Anyaoku has been awarded the second highest national award of Grand Commander of Order of the Niger byHe is the only Nigerian nominated for that category on the list of 340 awardees for the various categories by the Federal Government through its Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.
In the category of the Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria are former governors Chief Olusegun Osoba and Chief Bisi Akande . Also listed in the OON category are former Lagos Information and Strategy Commissioner Dele Alake; Managing Director and Editor-in-Chief, Vintage Press Limited, publishers of The Nation, Sporting Life and Gbelegbo titles, Mr. Victor Ifijeh; Media Coordinator of the Presidential Transition Committee Mr. Bayo Onanuga; and President Muhammadu Buhari’s Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Mallam Garba Shehu.
Some of the immediate past ministers on the CON list are: Chris Ngige ; George Akume ; Hadi Sirika ; Rauf Aregbesola ; Isa Ali Pantami ; Olamilekan Adegbite ; Dame Paullen Tallen ; Festus Keyamo among others. Also to be conferred with the CFR are Maj.-Gen. Samuel A. Adebayo; Central Bank of Nigeria Governor, Godwin Emefiele; a former Secretary-General of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries , Mohammed Bakindo ; and Malalam Mamman Daura.
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