{"id":179231,"date":"2025-09-17T10:11:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T09:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees"},"modified":"2025-09-17T11:12:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T10:12:17","slug":"gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees","title":{"rendered":"Gov Okpebholo approves four commissioner-nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has again approved four commissioner-nominees to be appointed into the State Executive Council.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees have now brought the total number of commissioners so far appointed and nominated to 26.<\/p>\n<p>A statement by Barrister Umar Musa Ikhilor, the Secretary to the State Government, said the names of the nominees would be forwarded to the Edo State House of Assembly for consideration and confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>Ikhilor gave the names of the nominees to include Dr Jerry Uwangue, Dr Kenneth Okoruwa Ihensekhien, Barr Usenbo Paul Ehigie and Akhigbe Osi John Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>One of the nominees, Dr Kenneth Okoruwa Ihensekhien, was a former Minority Leader in the Edo State House of Assembly between 1999 and 2003, former Commissioner for Youth &amp; Sports, Commissioner for Energy &amp; Water Resources, Commissioner for Agriculture &amp; Natural Resources and Special Adviser on Project Monitoring.<\/p>\n<p>He served as Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor and Principal Private Secretary to the APC National Chairman between 2018 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Eight nominees have been screened and confirmed by the State House of Assembly, but have yet to be sworn in, while nine have since been sworn in.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Nigeria<\/span> Follow <span style=\"color: #ff6600\">Africa-Press<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has again approved four commissioner-nominees to be appointed into the State Executive Council. The nominees have now brought the total number of commissioners so far appointed and nominated to 26. A statement by Barrister Umar Musa Ikhilor, the Secretary to the State Government, said the names of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[254,12790],"class_list":["post-179231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-nigeria","tag-okpebholo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gov Okpebholo approves four commissioner-nominees - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has again approved four commissioner-nominees to be appointed into the State Execu ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gov Okpebholo approves four commissioner-nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Edo State Governor, Monday Okpebholo, has again approved four commissioner-nominees to be appointed into the State Execu ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-09-17T09:11:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-09-17T10:12:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758091526.555095.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1067\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gov Okpebholo approves four commissioner-nominees\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-09-17T09:11:34+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-09-17T10:12:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2025\/09\/sm_1758091526.555095.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Nigeria\",\"Okpebholo\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/gov-okpebholo-approves-four-commissioner-nominees\",\"name\":\"Gov Okpebholo approves four commissioner-nominees - 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