Nigeria, June 19 -- President Bola Tinubu has conferred the national honour of CFR on Abubakar Dangiwa Umar, a former military governor of Kaduna State.

The president announced this during his one-day working visit to Kaduna State on Thursday.

He acknowledged that Mr Umar should have been included among those given national honours during the recent Democracy Day celebrations on 12 June.

"Let me use this opportunity to correct an omission," Mr Tinubu said. "One of the people I missed in my June 12 broadcast is Colonel Dangiwa. Let me honour him with CFR."

PREMIUM TIMES reported that the president conferred national honours on dozens of pro-democracy activists during this year's Democracy Day celebration. Those honoured were those who ...