Gov. Buni Bags Nigerien National Honours Award | Tellwell Newspaper
Tellwell Newspaper, Abuja – Nigeria:
Yobe State Governor Mai Mala Buni was on Sunday decorated with a Niger Republic National Honour in Niamey.
Decorating the Governor with the Honour of ‘Commandeur dans l’ordre du merite du Niger’, President Mohamed Bazum said the Honour was in recognition of Governor Buni’s contribution to bilateral, economic and social relationship between Nigeria and Niger Republic.
Bazum said the award has placed Governor Buni in a position of an ambassador who will strengthen relationship between the two countries.
Governor Buni said he was encouraged to do more by the National Honour awarded to him.
“This National Honour awarded to me, will spur me to do more in the interests of the two countries.
“Yobe State shares international borders with Niger Republic, therefore, we will strengthen peace and peaceful coexistence, and economic prosperity among the border communities of the two countries,” the Governor’s spokesman, Mamman Mohammed, quoted Gov. Buni as saying.
With this, Governor Buni was receiving the second National Honours award this year after Nigeria’s Commander of the Order of the Niger (CON) in October.
The Governor was accompanied to Niger Republic by the President of the Senate, Ahmad Ibrahim Lawan, members of the national and state legislature, the state executive Council, political associates, and thousands of well wishers across the country.
