PM Modi receives Nigeria’s second highest national award | India News – Times of India

ABUJA: Nigeria on Sunday conferred its second highest national award, the Grand Commander of the Order of the Nigerabout Prime Minister Narendra Modi, making him the second foreign dignitary to receive the award. “Honoured that Nigeria has received the award of ‘Grand Commander of the Order of the Niger’. I accept this with great humility and dedicate it to the people of India,” Modi said in his remarks after receiving the award.
This was the 17th international award conferred on Modi by a country.
Queen Elizabeth is the only foreign dignitary to be granted GCON status in 1969.
Modi is in Nigeria on the first leg of his three-nation visit at the invitation of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. This visit is the first by an Indian Prime Minister to Nigeria in seventeen years.
Upon his arrival in Nigeria on Sunday, Prime Minister Modi was warmly welcomed by Minister of Federal Capital Territory Nyesom Ezenwo Wike, who presented him with the ‘Key to the City’ of Abuja.
“The key symbolizes the trust and honor that the Nigerian people bestow on the Prime Minister,” the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said in a message on X.
From Abuja, Modi will travel to Brazil to attend the G20 summit. His final destination will be Guyana.