Airport cleaner, security guard who recovered lost money nominated for national honours

The federal government is set to confer national honours on a bank security guard, airport cleaner and gateman.

The trio will receive the title of the Federal Republic Medal II (FRM II) on October 11 alongside other Nigerians who were nominated for the national honours.

Musa Usman served as a gateman to V. Verghese, an Indian national and director of the Jawa International Limited.

The gateman was said to have rejected the offer of a house, but requested that a borehole be built in his community.

Usman, who hails from Giljimmi, a Fulani settlement in Birniwa LGA of Jigawa state, lives with his family in a thatched house.

Also up for the national honour is Josephine Agu, who was a cleaner at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

In 2015, Agu, a staff of a cleaning company at the Lagos airport, found $12,200, which a passenger forgot inside a toilet in the facility and returned it to security officials at the airport.

Similarly, Ibrahim Mohammed Ogbanago, a security guard working for the United Bank for Africa (UBA), found an envelope with $10,000 (about N3.5 million) at the gate of the bank and returned the money to the company.

In the same category, a posthumous honour will be conferred on Matthew Olamide Oyedepo.

Oyedepo died in the ill-fated Beachcraft 350 that crash-landed at the Kaduna International Airport last year, killing Ibrahim Attahiru, former chief of army staff, and nine others.