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8th Annual Forum Of Nigerian National Order Of Merit Laureates DAY ONE: TUESDAY, 1st DECEMBER, 2015 OPENING CEREMONY Time: 8:00a.m. -11:50 a.m. DAY TWO: WEDENSDAY, 2ND DECEMBER, 2015 TECHNICAL SESSIONS Time: 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.

Mr. Mike Omeri delivering the 10th paper of the NNOM 2015 Forum on Traditional African Culture and the Issue of Corruption

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Prof. Francis Abiola Irele (NNOM)
2013
Humanities

Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, born 1936) is a Nigerian academic who has been called the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide. He is currently Provost at the newly founded Kwara State University in Ilorin, Nigeria. Before moving back to Nigeria, Irele was Visiting Professor of African and African American Studies and of Romance Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. Irele graduated from Ibadan University in 1960. Immediately after graduation, he went to Paris to learn French and completed a Ph.D in French at the University of Paris, Sorbonne in 1966. He held teaching positions at the University of Ghana, University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University), and University of Ibadan. In 1989, he moved to Ohio State University in the U.S. as Professor of African, French and Comparative Literature.

The philosophy behind the establishment of Nigerian National Merit Award (NNMA) is that the sustained promotion of merit based on excellence holds the key to continuous innovations and inventions by the people, towards economic progress and for the advancement of humankind. In the Michael Young sense, "Merit is equated with intelligence-plus-effort", which requires to be constantly recognised and rewarded for the sustenance of the knowledge society.

The NNMA was established by Act no. 53 of 1979 under the military Administration of General Olusegun Obasanjo (GCFR) amended by Act 96 of 1992 (now known as CAP122 LFN, 2004) by General Ibrahim Babangida (GCFR). In line with section 2 of the Act, the NNMA Award shall:-
(a) Be an order of Dignity
(b) Entitled a recipient to:
( i) Use the designation Nigerian National order of merit (NNOM) after his name;
( ii) Receive a cash prize, a certificate and medal;
(iii) Such other privileges as are enjoyed by recipients of high levels of national Honors.