{"id":10701,"date":"2024-11-04T15:03:28","date_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:03:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=10701"},"modified":"2024-11-04T15:03:28","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T15:03:28","slug":"president-tinubu-swears-in-seven-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/11\/04\/president-tinubu-swears-in-seven-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu swears in seven ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">President Bola Tinubu has sworn in seven ministers-designates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ceremony was held in the council chamber of the Aso Rock villa on Monday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The ministers-designate were confirmed by the senate in the committee of the whole after a screening exercise last week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The senators spent hours asking them questions on portfolios assigned to them by the president.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Advertisement<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The upper legislative chamber confirmed Nentawe Yilwatda as minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty alleviation, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi as minister of labour and employment, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu as minister of state for foreign affairs, and Yusuf Abdullahi Ata as minister of state for housing and urban development.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Others are Idi Mukhtar Maiha as minister of livestock development, Jumoke Oduwole as minister of trade and investment, and Suwaiba Said Ahmad as the minister of state for education.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">About two weeks ago, Tinubu sacked five ministers and asked the senate to screen and confirm these new ones to fill vacant and new portfolios in his cabinet.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has sworn in seven ministers-designates. The ceremony was held in the council chamber of the Aso Rock<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10701"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10703,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10701\/revisions\/10703"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}