{"id":179437,"date":"2025-09-18T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/benue-assembly-approves-alias-request-for-advisers"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:57:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T12:57:57","slug":"benue-assembly-approves-alias-request-for-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/policy\/benue-assembly-approves-alias-request-for-advisers","title":{"rendered":"Benue Assembly Approves Alia&#8217;s Request for Advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Benue State House of Assembly has approved Governor Hyacinth Alia\u2019s request to appoint 10 more Special Advisers.<\/p>\n<p>The approval, granted on Thursday, during plenary, gives the governor the green light to expand his team of advisers barely days after he announced a new round of key appointments across strategic offices and statutory boards.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers said the move is intended to strengthen governance and help the administration deliver on its development agenda.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Alia is expected to unveil the names of the new appointees in the coming days.<\/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. The Benue State House of Assembly has approved Governor Hyacinth Alia\u2019s request to appoint 10 more Special Advisers. The approval, granted on Thursday, during plenary, gives the governor the green light to expand his team of advisers barely days after he announced a new round of key appointments across strategic offices and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":179436,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[9994,6440,1578,254],"class_list":["post-179437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-alia","tag-benue-assembly","tag-breaking","tag-nigeria"],"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>Benue Assembly Approves Alia&#039;s Request for Advisers - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Benue State House of Assembly has approved Governor Hyacinth Alia\u2019s request to appoint 10 more Special Advisers. 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