{"id":25497,"date":"2025-12-04T12:48:15","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:48:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=25497"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:49:31","slug":"tinubu-sends-ibas-dambazau-and-63-other-ambassadorial-nominees-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=25497","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Sends Ibas, Dambazau and 63 Other Ambassadorial Nominees to Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu has forwarded a fresh batch of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate, bringing the total list to 65.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">In the new submission, Tinubu nominated Ibok-Ete Ekwe Ibas, former Sole Administrator of Rivers State and immediate past Chief of Naval Staff, as a non-career ambassador. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">Also on the list are former Senator Ita Enang; Chioma Ohakim, ex\u2013First Lady of Imo State; and Abdulrahman Dambazau, former Minister of Interior and one-time Chief of Army Staff.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s2\">The President had earlier sent 32 names, but the latest addition of 35 nominees brings the full composition to 34 career ambassadors and 31 non-career ambassadors awaiting Senate screening and confirmation.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has forwarded a fresh batch of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate, bringing the total list to 65.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25499,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[11237,11236,10369,300,193],"class_list":["post-25497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ambassadorial-nominees","tag-dambazau","tag-ibas","tag-senate","tag-tinubu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25497"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25501,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25497\/revisions\/25501"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/25499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}