{"id":18500,"date":"2019-06-04T20:28:03","date_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18500"},"modified":"2019-06-04T20:28:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-04T20:28:03","slug":"18500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=18500","title":{"rendered":"Professor Muhammad-Bande is 74th UNGA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has emerged President of the 74th UN General Assembly.<br \/>\nMuhammad-Bande, the sole candidate for the position, was elected through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly in New York on Tuesday.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Foreign Affairs has applauded his emergence with spokesman, Mr Friday Akpan, declaring in Abuja that the\u00a0\u00a0election is a\u00a0 positive development and\u00a0 demonstrates\u00a0 the confidence in\u00a0 Nigeria\u2019s ability\u00a0 to pilot the affairs of the revered global institution.<br \/>\nMuhammad-Bande will officially take over from the current President,\u00a0Mar\u00eda \u00a0Garc\u00e9s, in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria\u2019s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Amb. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, has emerged President of the 74th UN General Assembly. Muhammad-Bande, the sole candidate for the position, was elected through acclamation at the 87th plenary meeting of the Assembly in New York on Tuesday. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has applauded his emergence with spokesman, Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16561,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}