Former President John Mahama has been conferred a honorary doctorate degree in letters by a Nigerian university.

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Igbinedion University, Okada is the first private university in Nigeria, established in 1999.

Mr Mahama lost his re-election bid in 2016 to Mr Nana Akufo-Addo by one million votes.

He became the first Ghanaian president to lose an election after his first term.

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He is seeking to win his party's flagbearership bid to contest in the 2020 election.