•Tinubu and some ambassadors-designate India and other yet-to-be disclosed countries have declined to accept some of President Bola Tinubu’s recently posted ambassadors-designate due to diplomatic policies that discourage receiving envoys from administrations with less than two years remaining in office. High-ranking officials in the presidenc...
President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, Thursday, received Letters of Credence from 21 new foreign envoys at the State House in Abuja. This was disclosed in a statement signed by Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga. The envoys, comprising 17 ambassadors and four high commissioners, were received during a ceremo...
•Ibas and Tinubu President Bola Tinubu has written to the Senate, forwarding for confirmation, 65 ambassadorial nominees. The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, read the president’s request today. The list consists of 34 Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners and 31 Non-Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners, totalling 65...
•Nigerian Senate The Senate has completed the screening of the three ambassadorial nominees forwarded to the upper chamber by President Bola Tinubu for confirmation. They are Kayode Are (Ogun State), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa State), and Ayodele Oke (Oyo State), reports Channels TV. The nominees, who appeared before the Senate Committee on Foreign...
•Fani-Kayode and Reno Omokri President Bola Tinubu has nominated the immediate past National Chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, a former presidential aide to President Goodluck Jonathan, Reno Omokri, a former aviation minister, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, for the position of ambassador. Also on the ambassadorial nomin...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu is set to appoint ambassadors to the country’s foreign missions in major countries in the coming weeks, top presidency sources have said. The move comes amid growing public concern that the prolonged absence of substantive envoys has weakened the country’s diplomatic presence abroad, particularly in key strategic ...
•Tinubu President Bola Tinubu is set to conclude the appointment of ambassadors to Nigeria’s foreign missions worldwide after months of diplomatic gaps and growing pressure over the country’s absence of envoys abroad. Multiple presidency officials familiar with the development told our correspondent that the president had ordered a “final clea...
•Professor Bolaji Akinyemi Former Nigerian External Affairs Minister, Bolaji Akinyemi, has called for urgent appointments into vacant ambassadorial positions. The professor, in an interview on Channels Television last night , stressed the importance of filling these posts without delay. “I believe credible appointments should be made to the va...
•International travellers, Lagos airport The diplomatic community yesterday rued the brewing spat between Nigeria and the United States, partly blaming it on poor handling in the absence of full-fledged ambassadors in Nigeria’s various foreign missions overseas. This is just as the United Arab Emirates also imposed tougher entry conditions for...
As part of the 2025 Eid-el-Fitr celebrations, the Katsina State Government hosted representatives of the European Union and 10 ambassadors during the Durbar Gala Night at Hillside Royal Suites, Katsina. The esteemed guests included diplomats from Bulgaria, Belgium, Finland, Portugal, Serbia, Mexico, Ireland, Poland, Vietnam, and the European U...
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