Buhari deploys four of 45 newly confirmed ambassadors
Buhari deploys four of 45 newly confirmed
ambassadors
President
Muhammadu Buhari has deployed four of the 45 ambassadors recently approved by
the Senate to some foreign missions.
The
deployment was announced this Friday on the president’s twitter handle.
The
names of the ambassadors deployed were Tijjani Bande from Kebbi State; Itegboje
Samson, Edo State; Kadiri Audu, Kwara State and Bankole Adeoye, Ogun State.
Bande
was deployed as Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria
to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, USA, while Samson will serve as
Ambassador/Deputy Representative, at the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the UN
Headquarters in New York.
Audu
will sever as Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to
the UN Office in Geneva, Switzerland and the last of the four, Adeoye was
deployed as Ambassador/Representative to the Embassy of Nigeria /Permanent
Mission to Africa Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Recall
that for almost two years there have not been substantive ambassadors in the
various areas.
The
President had forwarded 47 names to the National Assembly for approval, the
senators sanctioned the appointment of 45 and rejected two of them.
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