Tag: Nigerian Ambassadors

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the diplomatic postings of 65 Nigerian ambassadors to countries around the world and the United Nations. The disclosure was made by the Presidency yesterday by Special Adviser to the President (Information and Strategy) Bayo Onanuga, who noted that the list comprises 34 non-career ambassadors and 31 career diplomats assigned to different diplomatic missions. The postings follow the confirmation of the ambassadors-designate by the Senate last December. Among the non-career appointees are former senators, political figures, and public personalities assigned to countries including Israel, South…

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent the names of 32 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation, days after he sent the first batch of three names. This is according to a press statement  issued yesterday by the Special Adviser to the President (Information & Strategy), Bayi Onanuga. In two separate letters to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, President Tinubu asked the Senate to consider and expeditiously confirm 15 nominees as career ambassadors and 17 nominees as non-career ambassadors. There are four women on the career ambassadors’ list, and six…

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.. According to multiple Presidency officials familiar with the development, the President had ordered a ‘final cleanup’ of the list of nominees ahead of its release. The sources spoke on condition of anonymity  as they were not authorised to comment publicly. “It is going to be concluded very soon:, one senior official said. The official explained that, “they are just…