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Ooni of Ife, Oba of Benin, and 18 Monarchs To Be Conferred National Honours by President Buhari

Tuesday, October 04, 2022 at 3:59 AM by Segun Adeyemi

President Muhammadu Buhari will be conferring over 400 personalities with the national honours for 2022
The list consists of notable public office officials, traditional rulers, senior advocates and a host of others
However, 20 monarchs made the final list with the Ooni of Ife, and the Emir of Kano leading the pack

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This year's recipients for the national honours award of the Federal Republic of Nigeria have finally been released.

Legit.ng reports that the list consists of 437 recipients from different works of life with the likes of politicians, industrialists, public service holders, legal practitioners, traditional rulers and entertainers.

Traditional Rulers, Ooni of Ife, Emir of Kano, National Honours — This year's national honours feature 20 traditional rulers across the federation. Photo: Ooni of Ife, Emir of Kano, Olu of Warri, Oba of Benin
Source: UGC

This year's award featured five GCON, 54 CFR, 67 CON, 64 OFR, 101 OON, 75 MFR, 56 MON and 8 FRM to complete the 437 recipients for the 2022 honours.

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President Buhari will be presenting each recipient with their medal of honour at the State House on Tuesday, October 11.

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In this short piece, we will be spotlighting some of the traditional monarchs that made this year's list with twenty of them up for the honour of the COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (CFR).

Below is the full list of monarchs enlisted in the 2022 national honours award.

COMMANDER OF THE ORDER OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC (CFR)

S/N	NAME	STATUS	STATE	HONOUR
1	HIM Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi Ojaja II	Ooni of Ife	Osun	CFR
2	HM Omo N'Oba N'Edo Uku Akpolokpolo Ewuare II	Oba of Benin	Edo	CFR
3	His Highness, Alhaji Aminu Ado Bayero	Emir of Kano	Kano	CFR
4	HRH Ahmed Nuhu Bamali	Emir of Zazzau	Kaduna	CFR
5	HRM Prof James Ortese Ayatse	Tor Tiv V	Benue	CFR
6	HRH Abubakar Shehu Abubakar III	Emir of Gombe	Gombe	CFR
7	HRH Alh. Muhammadu ibn Abali Muhammad Idrissa	Emir of Fika	Yobe	CFR

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8	Da. Jacob Gyang Buba	Gbong Gwom Jos	Plateau	CFR
9	HRH Justice Sidi Bage Muhammad I (JSC Rtd)	Emir of Lafia	Nasarawa	CFR
10	HM King Dandeson Douglas JAJA	King Jaja of Opobo	Rivers	CFR
11	HRM Oba Gabriel Adejuwon	Onisan of Isan Ekiti		CFR
12	HIM Oba (Dr) Aladetoyinbo Ogunlade Aladelusi, Odundun II	Deji of Akure	Ondo	CFR
13	HRH Oba Babatunde Adewale Ajayi	Akarigbo of Remo	Ogun	CFR
14	His Eminence, Ntenyin (Dr) Solomon Daniel Etuk, JP	Oku Ibom Ibibio	Akwa Ibom	CFR
15	HRM Igwe Amb. Lawrence Agubuzu	Igwe of Eziama	Enugu	CFR
16	HRM King Alfred Diete-Spiff	Chairman, Bayelsa Council of Chiefs	Bayelsa	CFR

17	HRM Ogiame Atuwatse III	Olu of Warri	Delta	CFR
18	HRM Eze (Dr) E. C. Okeke	Chairman Imo Council	Imo	CFR
19	HRM Eze Joseph Ndubuisi Nwabeke	Chairman Abia Council	Abia	CFR
20	HRM Eze Charles N. Nkpuma	Chairman, Ebonyi	Ebonyi	CFR