Former President of Nigeria and her former boss, Goodluck Jonathan and Peter Obi have congratulated Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala on her GCON National Honors Award.
Naija News NG reports that the Director General of World Trade Organisation, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala was among a long list of successful Nigerians who President Buhari conferred National Honors Awards on in Abuja on October 11, 2022.
The Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger, GCON, is the highest honour for a non-President in Nigeria.
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Read the congratulatory messages from Goodluck Jonathan and Labour Party’s Presidential Candidate below :
Goodluck E. Jonathan @GEJonathan
Congratulations to Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, GCON,Director General WTO,
@TonyOElumelu CFR, Chairman Heirs Holdings, Hon. Ndudi Elumelu, OON, Minority Leader of the House of Representatives and other awardees on their conferment with national honours by President
@MBuhari ,GCFR. I wish them more strides and honour in their service to humanity .
– GEJ
Peter Obi @PeterObi
Today, the status of Nigerian women have been further accentuated with the recognition and bestowing on @NOIweala and @AminaJMohammed the very high national honours of GCON. Such recognition attests to their respective contribution, service and role in nation-building.
Read other reactions from Nigerians below :
Sulai Odus @SulaiOdus
What a coincidence, a day we are celebrating our girls that will transform to Women.
These duo (GCON) are a source of motivation to our girls, never to give up and also for the Govt/society to keep supporting and encouraging our girls/women at all levels.
Thank you @MBuhari.
ᴏᴠɪᴇ ᴀʟɪ ᴏnovwo-ᴏᴍᴀsᴏʀᴏ ™☤🇳🇬@OvieNews
Congratulations to Ngozi @NOIweala and @AminaJMohammed who were conferred with the highest honour for a non-President in Nigeria ,as President Buhari bestows on them ,the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON). Only Presidents and former (GCFR) will be above them.
Mo-Mo💙 @Morris_Monye
This same Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2015 that APC insulted and even Oshiomhole attacked and argued economics with, is the same Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala that APC is awarding National honors of GCON on in 2022
You see, propaganda remains propaganda. The truth will always overtake lies.
Nicole Hasat @Nicole_Izoduwa
APC to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2015;
“You are a fake intellectual”
APC To Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala in 2022 awarding her GCON:
“An astute,rigorously unsentimental economist & Nigeria’s most original,foremost & courageous economist.”
Propaganda will will fall flat before TRUTH.
Meaning of the National Honors Awards :
The Nigerian National Honours, in descending order of importance, are:
Order of the Federal Republic
Grand Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (GCFR)
Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR)
Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR)
Member of the Order of the Federal Republic (MFR)
Order of the Niger
Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON)
Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON)
Officer of the Order of the Niger (OON)
Member of the Order of the Niger (MON)
The GCFR and GCON are customarily respectively bestowed on former occupants of the office of President of Nigeria and Vice President of Nigeria including former military heads of state of Nigeria and Chiefs of General Staff. The GCON is also customarily bestowed on the Chief Justice of Nigeria and the President of the Nigerian Senate during their first year in office, while the CON is customarily bestowed on Justices of the Supreme Court of Nigeria
