President Muhammadu Buhari and Governor Babagana Zulum
By SADIQ ABUBAKAR, Maiduguri –
President Muhammadu Buhari has conferred the national honour award of Commander of Order of Niger (CON) on Borno State Governor, Professor Babagana Umara Zulum CON,.
Zulum was conferred the award on Tuesday at the International Conference Center, Abuja among other hundreds of awardees spread across the country.
A total of 450 people benefitted from the National Honours Award Investiture 2022 Programme bringing the total number of Nigeria’s national honours awardees to 5,341 since 1963 to date.
Out of the total number of the 2022 national awardees approved by President Buhari of 450 recipients, 6 people were awarded Grand Commanders of the Order of Niger (GCON), 55 bagged Commanders of the Federal Republic (CFR), 74 were awarded Members of the Order of Federal Republic (MFR), 77 people received Order of the Federal Republic (OFR).
Others include 110 recipients of Order of the Niger (OON), 55 also bagged Members of the Order of the Niger (MON), 65 people were given Commanders of the Order of the Niger (CON), while four others received Federal Republic Medal- First Class (FRM I) and Four Federal Republic Medal- Second Class FRM II.
It was also gathered that several Borno state indigenes were also conferred with national honour awards include Managing Director NNPC Malm Mele Kolo Kyari, National Security Adviser Major General Babagana Monguno rtd , APC Vice Chairman North Senator Abubakar Kyari , Member of House of representatives, Hon. . Mukhtar Aliyu Betara , Emir of Biu his royal highness Mai Mustapha Umar Mustapha II.
Others include the Chairman Tertiary Education Trust Fund Mutawalle Kashim Ibrahim Imam, Founder and Director General Future Prowess Schools Maiduguri, Barrister Zanna Mustapha, former Chief of Army Staff (COAS), Lt. Gen. Tukur Yusuf Buratai (rtd), the former Chief of Staff to the President (COS), late Alh. Abba Kyari among others .
