The Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari, has approved the conferment of CON (Commander of the Order of the Niger) as national honours on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum.

Senator George Akume, Minister of Special Duties and Inter-governmental Affairs, announced this in a letter he conveyed to the governor.

Akume wrote: “I have the honour to formally inform you that the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, His Excellency, Muhammad Buhari, GCFR,
has approved the conferment of the National Honours on you, in the rank of CON (Commander of the Order of the Niger).”

The honours investiture will hold in the morning of Tuesday, October 11, 2022, at the International Conference Centre (ICC) in Abuja, said minister, in the letter dated September 19, 2022, with reference number Ref: FMSDIGA/NHA/001k/T/90.

This is the highest honours Presidents of most countries confer on citizens who make exceptional contributions in service to their country.

President Mohammed Bazoum of the Republic of Niger on Tuesday, August 28, 2021, decorated Governor Zulum with his country’s Second-Order National Honour, “de Grand Officer Dans I`Ordre”, which is the equivalent of Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON, in Nigeria’s ranking of national honours.

The Borno head of government has more than 20 awards majority of them from highest ranking newspapers in Nigeria and from high level professional bodies and academic institutions including from the University of Ibadan, the National Postgraduate Medical College of Nigeria, Afe Babalola University, Ado Ekiti, amongst others.

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