SPEECH BY ALH DR. UMARU KWAIRANGA (SARKIN FULANIN GOMBE)
ACCEPTANCE SPEECH BY ALH (DR.) UMARU KWAIRANGA SARKIN FULANIN GOMBE ON THE OCCASSION OF THE CONFERMENT OF AN HONORARY DOCTORATE DEGREE ON HIM BY IGBINEDION UNIVERSITY, OKADA EDO STATE ON 29th NOVEMBER, 2014 protocol............... I feel deeply honored as I stand here today to accept this award of a doctorate degree by Nigeria's premier private University, Igbinedion University, Okada. I also feel a deep sense of humility to be counted in the same roll of honour as my distinguished fellow honorees, Alh Sen. (Dr.) Bala Muhammed (Kauran Bauchi), and previous recipients of similar honours from your University including former President Alh Shebu Shagari, Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar, the Late President Nelson Mandela of South Africa, Most Hon. P. J. Patterson of Jamaica, His Excellency Mr. John Kuffor of Ghana, His Eminence Sultan Alh Sa'ad Abubakar, Hon Justice Alfa Belgore, Hajia Turai Yar' Adua, Mrs Victoria Gowon, Malam Isa Yuguda, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and Dr. Ngozi Ok