Nigeria’s President Tinubu confers on Bill Gates, OFR

President Bola Tinubu, on Tuesday, conferred the national honour of Commander of the Order of the Federal Republic on American billionaire philanthropist and Microsoft co-founder, Bill Gates, in Lagos.

This was confirmed in a post on X (formerly Twitter) by the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga.

According to a statement from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Gates is in Nigeria this week to meet with Tinubu and discuss initiatives to strengthen the country’s primary healthcare system.