{"id":1963,"date":"2017-04-26T20:54:30","date_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=1963"},"modified":"2017-04-26T20:54:30","modified_gmt":"2017-04-26T20:54:30","slug":"buhari-re-presents-frail-82-years-old-judge-as-ambassadorial-nominee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=1963","title":{"rendered":"Buhari re-presents frail 82 years old judge as ambassadorial nominee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Adetunji, Abuja.<br \/>\nWeeks after the Senate rejected an octogenarian on account of his less than appropriate answers to questions at a Senate screening committee, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday re-submitted his name, again, as an ambassadorial nominee from Imo State.<br \/>\n82 years old Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor was also dropped by the Senate based on the report of its Foreign Affairs Committee that he looked tired and frail.<br \/>\nBut Ondo State nominee, Mr. Jacob Igbekele Daodu, rejected on account of a security report by the Department of State Services (DSS) was replaced with Joseph Olusola Iji.<br \/>\nSuleiman Zarma Hassan (Gombe) nominated for a ministerial position was replaced with retired Commodore Yusuf Jonga Hinna.<br \/>\nFour persons: Professor Ummu Ahmed Jalingo (North East), Professor Justitia Nnabuko (South East), Professor Mike Obadan (South South), Dr. Abdu Abubakar (North West) \u00a0and Adeola Adetunji had their names sent in to be screened as non-executive directors of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Tunde Adetunji, Abuja. Weeks after the Senate rejected an octogenarian on account of his less than appropriate answers to questions at a Senate screening committee, President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday re-submitted his name, again, as an ambassadorial nominee from Imo State. 82 years old Justice Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor was also dropped by the Senate based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1564,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1963","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\/1963","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=1963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1963\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}