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by Victor Ndubuisi
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President Muhammadu Buhari has expressed his congratulations to his staff members who recently received the Niger Republic’s highest civilian honors.

Buhari expressed happiness with the development in a statement released on Thursday by his Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity, Garba Shehu.

He continued by expressing his hope that the friendship and understanding between Nigeria and the Niger Republic will endure.

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According to Anaedoonline.ng, the President’s Senior Special Assistant on Household and Domestic Matters, Sarki Abba, and the State Chief of Protocol, Ambassador Lawal Kazaure, were among those honored as part of the nation’s celebration of the Niger Republic’s independence.

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After obtaining their awards, the aides went to Abuja to present the President with their diplomas and medals.

In response, Buhari was reportedly cited as saying in a statement, “he saw the honor to them as representative of the enduring mutual affinity between the two nations and their peoples.

The long-standing friendship and productive cooperation between the two states would continue to strengthen, he added, “expressed optimism.”

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The governors of Jigawa and Zamfara states, Badaru Abubakar and Mohammed Matawalle, as well as the businessmen Aliko Dangote, president of the Dangote Group, and Abdulsamad Rabi’u, president of the BUA Group, who received Niger’s national honors at the Independence Day ceremony, also received congratulations from President Buhari.

The President thanked the people of Niger for the honors and President Mohammed Bazoun.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Zainab Ahmed, the minister of finance, budget, and national planning, gave an explanation of why the federal government had bought ten automobiles for the Niger Republic for N1,145,000,000.

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In response to the outrage that greeted the leak of the purchase’s contract, which was shared by well-known investigative journalist David Hundeyin on his verified Twitter account on Tuesday night, Ahmed explained the motivation behind the gesture. He noted that Nigeria has a tradition of helping out needy neighbors in the name of brotherhood.

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She continued by saying that it will aid in overcoming insecurity.

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