{"id":26831,"date":"2020-07-01T14:21:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:21:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=26831"},"modified":"2020-07-01T14:21:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-01T14:21:47","slug":"buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Nominates 41 Ambassadors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria:<\/p>\n<p class=\"first\">President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names 41 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and subsequent confirmation.<\/p>\n<p>The names of the nominees were read during Wednesday&#8217;s plenary by the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, shortly after the end of the closed-door session.<\/p>\n<p>Among the nominees are Debo Adesina, former Editor-In-Chief of The Guardian Newspapers, Oma Djebah, former Group Politics Editor of THISDAY Newspapers, Ademola Seriki, former Minister of State for Defence, Maureen Tamuno, Umar Sulaiman, Obong Effiong Akpan and Dare Sunday Awoniyi.<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix after-story-ad-wrapper\">\n<div class=\"views-row col-small-6 col-large-4\">\n<div class=\"block-module block-module-ad block-module-ad-300x250\">\n<div class=\"adunit-parent block-module-image-wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa Press-Nigeria: President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names 41 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and subsequent confirmation. The names of the nominees were read during Wednesday&#8217;s plenary by the President of the Senate, Dr Ahmad Lawan, shortly after the end of the closed-door session. Among the nominees are Debo Adesina, former [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":15980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[1220,97],"class_list":["post-26831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-adesina","tag-buhari"],"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>Buhari Nominates 41 Ambassadors - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names 41 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and\" \/>\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\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari Nominates 41 Ambassadors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa Press-Nigeria:President Muhammadu Buhari has sent the names 41 non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for screening and\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-07-01T14:21:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Buhari-2.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1012\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"alico\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"alico\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/50afd2ef4f0e900bd0a176404a8484a7\"},\"headline\":\"Buhari Nominates 41 Ambassadors\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-07-01T14:21:47+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\"},\"wordCount\":91,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/2019\/09\/Buhari-2.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Adesina\",\"Buhari\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-nominates-41-ambassadors\",\"name\":\"Buhari Nominates 41 Ambassadors - 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