President Muhammadu Buhari has listed an 87-year-old Islamic cleric, Alhaji Abdulahi Abubakar; a cleaner, Josephine Agu; security guard, Rahim Mohammed and Musa Usman, among notable Nigerians to be given the national honours for acts of brotherliness, diligence, and honesty.
Gatekeepers News reports that Abubakar will be decorated with Member, Order of Niger (MON) for saving the lives of 262 fleeing Christians from Boko Haram at Yelwa Gindi Akwati village, Plateau State.
Also, Agu, a cleaner at Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos, Southwest Nigeria will be decorated for a rare display of honesty at his duty post.
In 2015, Agu, a staff of a cleaning company at the Lagos Airport, found and returned $12,200 forgotten inside the toilet by a passenger.
Agu, on discovering the money, returned it to the security officials at the airport to the surprise of many Nigerians.
Similarly, Ibrahim Mohammed Ogbanago, a security guard working for United Bank of Africa (UBA) Plc returned an envelope containing $10,000 he found at the gate of the bank.
Also, Musa Usman, a security man attached to V. Venghese, an Indian national and director of the Jawa International Limited.
The gateman, as reliably informed, rejected the offer of a house but requested that a borehole be drilled in his community.
Usman hails from Glijimmi, a Fulani settlement in Birmiwa Local Government Area of Jigawa state.
A posthumous honour will also be conferred on Matthew Olamide Oyedepo.
Oyedepo died in the ill-fated Beachcraft 350 that crash-landed at the Kaduna International Airport last year, killing Ibrahim Attahiru, former chief of army staff, and nine others.
The honourees will receive their national medals on Tuesday, October 11, 2022.
