Buhari Confers National Award On JAMB Registrar, Customs CG For Productivity

The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, Is-haq Oloyede and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd.), have been scheduled to receive the National Productivity Order of Merit awards from President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday.

The awards said to be aimed at recognising “hard work and excellence among deserving Nigerians” will also be conferred on the Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, the Chairman of United Bank for Africa  (UBA), Tony Elumelu, among others.

The scheduled event was contained in a JAMB bulletin on Sunday, which said the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, confirmed the nominations for the award in a letter to the registrar.

The letter partly reads, “The President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria has approved the conferment of the National Productivity Order of Merit Award on you in recognition of your high productivity, hard work and excellence.”

“Other awardees are the CG of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd.), Alhaji Aliko Dangote, Mr Tony Elumelu and others.”

The bulletin added, “The JAMB registrar was nominated for the National Productivity Order of Merit Award. His innovations and the deployment of Information and Communications Technology in the fight against corruption and other unwholesome acts have given impetus to the fight against financial, administrative and examination malfeasance.

“The disclosure of the board’s income and expenditure weekly in the bulletin has not gone unnoticed by anti-corruption crusaders.”