Tinubu apologises for omission, confers CFR on Abubakar Umar
[NigerianEye - Nigeria] - 19/06/2025
President Bola Tinubu has conferred the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic (CFR) on Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, a retired colonel and prominent June 12 advocate. Tinubu announced the honour on Thursday during the inauguration of a 300-bed hospital and vocational training institute in Kaduna. Umar, a former military officer and outspoken critic of successive governments, was described by the president as a “soldier of democracy”. Tinubu said Umar’s name was inadvertently left out of the list of June 12 honourees announced on Democracy Day. “Let me use this (…)
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