{"id":9101,"date":"2019-04-26T16:35:45","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/nigeria\/?p=9101"},"modified":"2019-04-26T16:35:45","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T16:35:45","slug":"buhari-sends-minister-to-guinea-bissau-benin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/all-news\/buhari-sends-minister-to-guinea-bissau-benin","title":{"rendered":"Buhari sends minister to Guinea Bissau, Benin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to proceed on an urgent mission as his Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau, in the company of the ECOWAS Commission President, Jean-Claude Brou.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>It noted that Buhari had in response to an urgent request for assistance by the Government of Guinea Bissau graciously approved support to the country\u2019s election process including 350 units of electoral kits, 10 motorcycles, 5 Hilux vans, 2 light trucks and $500,000).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis vital assistance ensured that legislative elections held in Guinea Bissau, which should help in stabilizing the country,\u201d it read.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate development, Onyeama will also undertake a mission to Cotonou, Benin, to deliver a personal message to President Patrice Talon from President Buhari.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is in the context of the brewing political crisis ahead of the April 28, 2019 legislative elections in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to proceed on an urgent mission as his Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau, in the company of the ECOWAS Commission President, Jean-Claude Brou. This was contained in a statement by Garba Shehu, presidential spokesman. It noted that Buhari had in response to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":1762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,14],"tags":[97,280,595,235],"class_list":["post-9101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-buhari","tag-minister","tag-minister-of-foreign-affairs","tag-president"],"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 sends minister to Guinea Bissau, Benin - Nigeria<\/title>\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-sends-minister-to-guinea-bissau-benin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Buhari sends minister to Guinea Bissau, Benin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Muhammadu Buhari, on Friday, directed the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Geoffrey Onyeama to proceed on an urgent mission as his Special Envoy to Guinea Bissau, in the company of the ECOWAS Commission President, Jean-Claude Brou. 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