According to media reports, the former Vice-President of Nigeria, Dr Alex Ekwueme, and former governor of Lagos state, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, have been confeered honorary doctorate degrees by the University of Abuja (UNIABUJA).
According to NAN, this took place at the Combined Convocation of the insitution.
NAN reports that former Chief Justices of Nigeria, Justice Idris Kutigi and Maryam Aloma Mukhtar, were also conferred with honorary doctorate degrees.
Ekwueme was said to be unavoidably absent as he was represented by his daughter, Mrs Chidi Onyemelukwe.