The Registrar of the Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board, JAMB, Prof Is-haq Oloyede and the Comptroller-General of the Nigeria Customs Service, Col Hameed Ali (retd.) will be among notable Nigerians to be conferred with National Productivity Order of Merit award by President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday, Nov. 28.
Others are business mogul, Aluko Dangote and founder of Tony Elumelu Foundation, Mr. Tony Elumelu.
According to JAMB bulletin on Sunday, the Minister of Labour and Employment, Chris Ngige, confirmed the nominations for the award in a letter to the registrar.
The award is said to be instituted by the Federal Government to recognise hard work and excellence among deserving Nigerians.
The JAMB bulletin quoted the letter from the Labour Minister to the Registrar as saying: “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.
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“Other awardees are the CG of Customs, Col Hameed Ali (retd.), Aliko Dangote, Mr. Tony Elumelu and others.”
The bulletin added further that Oloyede’s 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 ccrusaders, it added.
An award lecture titled, “Productivity for National Re-Engineering, Security and Growth” would be delivered by a former Director-General of the National Centre for Education Management and Administration, Prof Mike Obadan.