{"id":80377,"date":"2025-12-16T22:46:48","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80377"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:46:48","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T22:46:48","slug":"senate-confirms-three-ambassadorial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/16\/senate-confirms-three-ambassadorial-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Three Ambassadorial Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of three non-career ambassadors nominated by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>Those confirmed are Lateef Kayode Kolawole Are (Ogun), Aminu Muhammad Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Emmanuel Ayodele Oke (Oyo), following their successful screening by the committee.<\/p>\n<p>The confirmations are part of the ongoing ambassadorial approval process by the Senate. Last week, the upper chamber screened and confirmed 68 nominees, including former INEC Chairman Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, former presidential aide Reno Omokri, and former Minister of Interior Abdulrahman Dambazau.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of three non-career ambassadors nominated by President Bola Tinubu. Those confirmed are Lateef Kayode Kolawole Are (Ogun), Aminu Muhammad Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Emmanuel Ayodele Oke (Oyo), following their successful screening by the committee. The confirmations are part of the ongoing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80378,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80377","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\/80377","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80377"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80379,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80377\/revisions\/80379"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}