Ndutimi Alaibe honoured with OFR by Buhari

Celebrated technocrat and former Managing Director of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC), Chief ‘Timi Alaibe, is among the select top Nigerians approved by the out-gone President, Muhammadu Buhari, for conferment with the national honours.

Alaibe’s name is listed as Number 15 among those to be honoured with Officer of the Order of the Federal Republic (OFR), as contained in a newspaper publication on Sunday signed by Ibiene P. Roberts, the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs

The award headlined List of 2023 Special National Honours Award Recipients features such other top Nigerians as Chief Emeka Anyaoku, former Secretary General of the Commonwealth of Nations, billed to be honoured with Grand Commander of the Federal Republic (GCON), and a journalism legend and former Governor of Ogun State, Chief Segun Osoba, who would be honoured with Commander of the Order of Federal Republic (CFR).

Also, to be honoured with OFR are a top journalist and media expert, Dr. Yemi Ogunbiyi, several retired generals of the Nigerian army and their equivalents in the air force and navy, senior lawyers and several Justices of the Court of Appeal, including Justice Ita Mbaba.

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Chief Alaibe, who turned 60 in 2022, had also served as Honourary Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs to the President and later Special Adviser on Niger Delta Affairs and the founding Executive Chairman of the Presidential Amnesty Programme established by late President Umaru Yar’Adua for the rehabilitation of the disarmed Niger Delta militants.

He is credited for the success of the disarmament of the militants, a process that pushed Nigeria’s economy back from the precipice through full restoration of oil production in the Niger Delta and for establishing the operational template that has guided government in the successful execution of the Amnesty Programme.