The federal government plans to bestow national honors on a bank security guard, an airport cleaner, and a gatekeeper.
On October 11, the trio will receive the Federal Republic Medal II (FRM II) along with other Nigerians who were nominated for the national honors.
Musa Usman was a gatekeeper for V. Verghese, an Indian national and the director of Jawa International Limited.
The gateman was said to have declined the offer of a house in exchange for the construction of a borehole in his community.
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Usman lives in a thatched house with his family in Giljimmi, a Fulani settlement in Birniwa LGA of Jigawa state.
Josephine Agu, a cleaner at Lagos’ Murtala Muhammed International Airport, is also up for the national award.
In 2015, Agu, a cleaning company employee at the Lagos airport, discovered $12,200 that a passenger had forgotten inside a toilet in the facility and returned it to airport security officials.
Similarly, Ibrahim Mohammed Ogbanago, a security guard for the United Bank for Africa (UBA), discovered an envelope containing $10,000 (about N3.5 million) at the bank’s gate and returned it to the company.
Matthew Olamide Oyedepo will receive a posthumous honor in the same category.
Oyedepo was killed in the ill-fated Beachcraft 350 crash-landing at Kaduna International Airport last year, which also killed Ibrahim Attahiru, former chief of army staff, and nine others.
