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5,341 persons receive National Honours in 59 years

Nigeria's National Honours Awards programme was established on October 1, 1963, and as of this writing, 5,341 people have received them. Thi...

Chima Joseph Ugo
Chima Joseph Ugo - Editor-in-chief October 11, 2022
Updated October 11, 2022 at 12:04 PM
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Nigeria's National Honours Awards programme was established on October 1, 1963, and as of this writing, 5,341 people have received them.

This is in accordance with a total of all awardees compiled by the Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs.

President Muhammadu Buhari bestowed 493 honours in all, which is the most since 1963, according to the document seen by our correspondent.

According to PRIME 9JA ONLINE, Buhari granted national honours of Officer of the Order of the Niger and financial prizes of N200 million for 43 Team Nigeria contingents travelling to the 2022 Commonwealth Games and the World Athletics Championships.

The second and larger tranche of the awardees was honoured on Tuesday.

This is followed by former President Goodluck Jonathan who awarded 313 persons with honours in 2013 and 2014.

A further breakdown revealed that only 14 persons have earned the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic, a designation reserved for the President.

Forty-two persons have received the honour of the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, while 359 persons have been awarded the Commander of the Federal Republic honours.

The rest are as follows: Commander of the Order of the Niger (573), Officer of the Federal Republic (966), OON (1,331), MFR (1,039), MON (775), Federal Republic Medal I (154) and Federal Republic Medal II (89).

The National Honours Awards was established by the National Honours Act of No 6 in 1964. It took retroactive effect from October 1, 1963.

The Act empowers the President by warranting, the Nigerian Order of Dignity to honour deserving citizens who have contributed to the development of and progress of the country in any field of endeavour.

In 2022, some of the 13 persons who will be honoured posthumously include former Chief of Staff to the President, Abba Kyari (CFR), former Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Ibrahim Attahiru and Aircraft Man Matthew Oyedepo, the latter two who died in a fatal plane crash in May 2021.
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