{"id":72348,"date":"2025-08-06T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72348"},"modified":"2025-08-06T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T20:43:09","slug":"onochie-tinubu-running-nigeria-like-a-whatsapp-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/onochie-tinubu-running-nigeria-like-a-whatsapp-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Onochie: Tinubu Running Nigeria Like a WhatsApp Group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Former presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, has taken a swipe at President Bola Tinubu over the prolonged delay in appointing new ambassadors nearly two years after recalling all of Nigeria\u2019s foreign envoys.<\/p>\n<p>In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Onochie accused the president of governing the country \u201clike a private WhatsApp group,\u201d slamming the failure to fill key diplomatic positions since September 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s been almost two years, and Nigeria still has no ambassadors in several countries,\u201d she wrote. \u201cWe have no official representation where it matters most, yet we\u2019re busy cozying up to places like St. Lucia and Kazakhstan, where idolising a Nigerian President may come easy, for the right price.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Onochie\u2019s comments reflect growing concern over the vacuum in Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic corps.<\/p>\n<p>Ambassadors are critical in representing the nation\u2019s interests abroad and maintaining bilateral relations.<\/p>\n<p>Observers warn that the continued absence of substantive ambassadors could weaken Nigeria\u2019s global influence and disrupt its foreign policy priorities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata Former presidential aide, Lauretta Onochie, has taken a swipe at President Bola Tinubu over the prolonged delay in appointing new ambassadors nearly two years after recalling all of Nigeria\u2019s foreign envoys. In a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Wednesday, Onochie accused the president of governing the country \u201clike a private [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":72349,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72348","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72348"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72350,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72348\/revisions\/72350"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}