{"id":13759,"date":"2024-01-09T15:17:09","date_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=13759"},"modified":"2024-01-09T15:17:09","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T15:17:09","slug":"tinubu-slashes-travel-expenses-for-president-vps-offices-all-government-officials-by-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/09\/tinubu-slashes-travel-expenses-for-president-vps-offices-all-government-officials-by-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Slashes Travel Expenses For President, VPs\u2019 Offices, All Government Officials By 60%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has slashed travel expenses of the President, Vice President\u2019s offices and all top government functionaries by 60 percent. \u00a0The presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, \u00a0disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>He said the directive was issued as a cost-cutting measure on official travels.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking further, Ngelale said It will also affect the offices of the President, Vice President, First Lady, and ministers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTinubu has directed that all state entourages be drastically reduced, it is not a request but a directive\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe office of the president and staff will be affected. VP, appointees are affected. By this directive, there will be a slashing of expenditure on official travel by 60 per cent,\u201d Ngelale said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has slashed travel expenses of the President, Vice President\u2019s offices and all top government functionaries by 60 percent. \u00a0The presidential spokesman, Ajuri Ngelale, \u00a0disclosed this to State House Correspondents on Tuesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He said the directive was issued as a cost-cutting measure on official travels. Speaking further, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":13760,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[526],"class_list":["post-13759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-bola-ahmed-tinubu"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13759"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13761,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13759\/revisions\/13761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13760"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}