{"id":9173,"date":"2022-06-21T12:21:42","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9173"},"modified":"2022-06-21T12:21:42","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T12:21:42","slug":"buhari-nominates-new-ministers-sends-list-to-senate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=9173","title":{"rendered":"Buhari Nominates New Ministers, Sends List To Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated seven persons for screening and confirmation by the Senate for appointment as Ministers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Buhari\u2019s letter of request on the floor of the Senate, in Abuja, on Tuesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">In the letter read by\u00a0 Lawan,\u00a0 the president said the nominees would replace the former ministers that resigned from his cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The letter read in part, \u201cIn accordance with Section 8 Subsection 2 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended, I hereby forward the underlisted ministerial nominees for your confirmation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The nominees are:<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh \u2013 Abia State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Umana Okon Umana \u2013 Akwa Ibom State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Egwumakama Joseph Nkama \u2013 Ebonyi State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Goodluck Nnana Opiah \u2013 Imo State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub \u2013 Kano State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ademola Adewole Adegoroye \u2013 Ondo State<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Odum Odih \u2013 Rivers State<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated seven persons for screening and confirmation by the Senate for appointment as Ministers. Senate President Ahmad Lawan read Buhari\u2019s letter of request on the floor of the Senate, in Abuja, on Tuesday. In the letter read by\u00a0 Lawan,\u00a0 the president said the nominees would replace the former ministers that resigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4352,382,300],"class_list":["post-9173","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-ministers","tag-muhammadu-buhari","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173"}],"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=9173"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9174,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9173\/revisions\/9174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}