{"id":82046,"date":"2026-01-23T08:28:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=82046"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:28:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T08:28:11","slug":"tinubu-approves-posting-of-four-ambassadors-to-key-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2026\/01\/23\/tinubu-approves-posting-of-four-ambassadors-to-key-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Approves Posting of Four Ambassadors to Key Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the posting of four ambassador-designates to Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic missions in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The approval was disclosed in a statement by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, Colonel Lateef Are (rtd) has been posted as ambassador-designate to the United States, while Mr. Ayodele Oke will serve as ambassador-designate to France.<\/p>\n<p>Also approved are Mr. Aminu Dalhatu as High Commissioner-designate to the United Kingdom and Mr. Usman Isa Dakingari Suleiman as ambassador-designate to Turkey.<\/p>\n<p>The Presidency said the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been directed to notify the host countries and commence necessary diplomatic processes. The envoys are among the 68 nominees earlier confirmed by the Senate as part of efforts to strengthen Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic presence abroad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the posting of four ambassador-designates to Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic missions in the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Turkey. The approval was disclosed in a statement by the President\u2019s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Mr. Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, Colonel Lateef Are (rtd) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":82047,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82046","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82048,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82046\/revisions\/82048"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}