A lawyer, Timipa Okponipere, has kicked against the move by the President Muhammadu Buhari to confer National Honours Awards on the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Ariwoola, and his immediate-past predecessor, Tanko Muhammad. The media over the weekend was awash with a series of names purportedly on the list of Nigerians to be conferred with national awards. Both men are billed to be conferred with the Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger (GCON) by the President at the investiture ceremony scheduled to hold on 11 October at the State House in Abuja.
Despite appeals from several quarters, President Muhammadu Buhari has ignored a known convention by excluding a former President of the Senate, Dr Abubakar Bukola Saraki, who led the National Assembly