In Abuja, Tobi Amusan, Ese Brume, and other Nigerian athletes received national honors from President Muhammadu Buhari GCFR of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Nigerian athletes who competed in the recently finished Commonwealth Games in Birmingham were awarded today, according to a report published by SportsRation on Monday.

National honors and financial incentives were given to the athletes who achieved Nigeria’s best-ever finish at the Commonwealth Games.

Four athletes received the title of Officer of the Order of Niger (OON) for the first time in Nigerian history.

Tobi Amusan, Ese Brume, Blessing Oborududu, and Fumilayo Folashade are the athletes in this Category A; all four of them took home gold in the recently finished Commonwealth Games.

They received four million and five hundred thousand naira (N4.5 million) each in addition to the national honors.

President Buhari awarded the Member of the Order of the Niger (MON) to seven athletes in Category B who also took home a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games.

Odunayo Adekuoroye, Onywkwere Chioma, Nwachukwu Goodness, Njideka Iyiazi, Ofili Favour, Lawal Afolashade, and Genesis Mercy are the athletes in this group.

For their valor, they were each awarded N4.5 million.

Silver medal winners in Category C received a Federal Republic Medal Class 1 and a monetary gift of 2.5m.

Finally, a Federal Republic Medal Class 2 award of one million five hundred thousand naira (N1.5m) was given to the Category D (bronze medalist).

The table with all of the winners from the recently finished Commonwealth Games is below.

Lifting weights (6)

1. Gold in the women’s 55kg weightlifting competition was Olarinoye Adenike Adijat.
2. Men’s 67kg weightlifting bronze went to Edidiong Joseph Umoafia.
3. Women’s 59kg weightlifting gold medallist Rafiatu Folashade Lawal
4. Islamiyat Adebukola won bronze in the 64-kg women’s weightlifting competition.
5. Women’s 76kg weightlifting silver medallist Taiwo Laidi
6. Women’s 87kg weightlifting bronze medallist Mary Taiwo Osijo

Powerlifting Para-(4)

7. Bronze in the men’s lightweight powerlifting division went to Innocent Nnamdi.
8. Folashade Oluwafemiayo, the heavyweight powerlifting champion for women
9. Women’s Heavyweight Powerlifting Silver Medallist Bose Omolayo
10. Men’s Heavyweight Powerlifting Silver Medal Winner: Ikechukwu Obichukwu

Table Tennis Para-Table (4)

11. Bronze women’s singles classes 6–10 Para Table Faith Obazuaye
12. Ogunkunle Isau: Bronze in the Para Table Men’s Singles Classes 3-5
13. Silver Men’s Singles Classes 3-5 Para Table by Nasiru Sule
14. Ifechukwude Silver in Women’s Para Table Tennis is Christiana IKPEOYI.

Para-Sports (3)

15. F42 Discus Champion Goodness Chiemerie Nwachukwu
16. Eucharia Iyiazi won gold in the women’s shot put competition, F55-57.
17. Bronze in the women’s F55-57 Shot Put, Ugochi Alam

Wrestling (7)

18. Women’s 57kg Freestyle Wrestling Gold Medalist Odunayo Adekuoroye
19. Women’s 68kg Freestyle Wrestling World Champion Blessing Oborududu
    Esther Kolawole won bronze in the women’s 62-kilogram freestyle wrestling competition.
20. Miesinnei Mercy Genesis, the 50kg women’s freestyle wrestling champion
21. Men’s Freestyle 57kg Wrestling Silver Medallist Ebikewenimo Welson
22. Bronze in the men’s 74kg freestyle event, Ogbonna John
23. Hannah Rueben, who won a silver medal in women’s wrestling at 76 kg

Boxing (3)

25. Ifeanyi Onyekwere: Bronze in the Super-heavyweight division in men’s boxing
26. Jacinta Umunnakwe, who placed third in the middleweight women’s boxing competition
27. Silver female boxer Elizabeth Oshoba, weighing between 54 and 57 kg (featherweight)

Sports (8)
Favour Ofili won silver in the women’s 200m, Tobi Amusan won gold in the women’s 100m hurdles, and Chioma Onyekwere won gold in the women’s discus. Obiageri Amechi won bronze.

32. In the men’s 4×100-meter relay, Udodi Onwuzuruike, Favour Ashe, Alaba Akintola, and Raymond Ekevwo placed third; in the women’s 4×100-meter relay, Tobi Amusan, Favour Ofili, Rosemary Chukwuma, and Grace Nwokocha placed first.
33. In the women’s long jump, Ese Brume won gold.
34. Silver female boxer Elizabeth Oshoba, weighing between 54 and 57 kg (featherweight)

In decreasing order of significance, the Nigerian National Honors are:

Federal Republic Order
Grand Commander of the Federal Republic’s Order (GCFR)
Commander of the Federal Republic’s Order (CFR)
Officer of the Federal Republic’s Order (OFR)
A member of the Federal Republic’s Order of the Republic (MFR)

The Niger Order
The Order of the Niger’s Grand Commander (GCON)
Order of the Niger Commander (CON), Order of the Niger Officer (OON), and Order of the Niger Member (MON)