The federal government yesterday said that no winner merited the Nigerian National Order of Merit (NNOM) award for 2022.
The Chairman of the Nigeria National Merit Award Prof Shekarau Yakubu during a press briefing yesterday in Abuja revealed that of the 32 nomination applications for the NNOM award and after a rigorous process of assessment exercise none was adjourned to have merited the award.
He said NNMA received 4 nominations from the field of science, 9 in Medicine, 5 in Engineering Technology and 14 in the humanities adding that the nominations went through a rigorous process of assessment exercise but unfortunately none of the nominations met their criteria.
He said this is the second year no winner has emerged under his leadership, he added that the last year when no winner emerge was three years ago in 2019.
