{"id":20890,"date":"2019-09-23T19:22:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20890"},"modified":"2019-09-23T19:22:19","modified_gmt":"2019-09-23T19:22:19","slug":"buhari-governors-ministers-visit-home-boy-muhammad-bande-wish-him-well-over-weight-on-his-shoulder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=20890","title":{"rendered":"Buhari, Governors, ministers visit home-boy, Muhammad-Bande, wish him well over weight on his shoulder"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Like a proup father President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in New York paid a courtesy call on President of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, telling him that he bears a heavy weight on his shoulders, and that Nigeria was solidly behind him in the onerous task.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Muhammad-Bande, a Nigerian diplomat, was earlier in the year unanimously elected President of the General Assembly for one year.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI sincerely congratulate you. Your election was well received by the whole world. It was a unanimous support, and the global community received you well. That support puts heavy weight on you, and I wish you well,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/IMG-20190923-WA0031.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-20889\"\/><figcaption>Ministers on the Nigerian delegation: From left: Minister of State for Budget and National Planning, Prince Clem Ikanade Agba; Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu; Minister of Defence, Major General Bashir Magashi (retd.); Minister of Women Affairs, Mrs Pauline Tallen; Minister of Water Resources, Alhaji Suleiman Adamu; Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Hajia Sadiya Inari Faruk; and, CEO, AIDA-NEPAD, Mrs Gloria Akobondu in New York for UNGA.\u00a0<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding, Prof. Muhammad-Bande said he was delighted to receive the Nigerian President, \u201calong with your team of professionals and politicians.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He added: \u201cYour nominating me for this position is the greatest honour I can have. The support from Africa and the world has been outstanding so far.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Buhari was accompanied by governors, ministers, and senior government officials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like a proup father President Muhammadu Buhari Monday in New York paid a courtesy call on President of the 74th United Nations General Assembly, Prof. Tijjani Muhammad-Bande, telling him that he bears a heavy weight on his shoulders, and that Nigeria was solidly behind him in the onerous task. Muhammad-Bande, a Nigerian diplomat, was earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":15210,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20890","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\/20890","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=20890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}