{"id":31183,"date":"2021-02-09T15:56:31","date_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:56:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31183"},"modified":"2021-02-09T15:56:31","modified_gmt":"2021-02-09T14:56:31","slug":"finally-senate-officially-receives-buharis-request-to-confirm-service-chiefs-as-non-career-ambassadors-designate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=31183","title":{"rendered":"Finally, Senate officially receives Buhari\u2019s request to confirm Service Chiefs as non-career Ambassadors-Designate"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the immediate former Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin as non\/career Ambassador-Designate.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>Also to be confirmed are the former Service Chiefs \u2013 Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe; former Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, and; the former Chief of Defence Intelligence, Air Vice Marshal Muhammad S. Usman (Rtd).<br \/><br \/>The request was contained in a letter dated 4th February, 2021, and read during plenary by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, immediately after the adoption of the Votes and Proceedings.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>According to President Buhari, the appointment was duly carried out in accordance to section 171(1),(2)(c) &amp; sub-section (4) of 1999 constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.<br \/><br \/>The Service Chiefs, had on 26th January, 2021, tendered their resignation from the service of the military to President Muhammadu Buhari.<br \/><br \/>The President, following receipt and approval of their resignation, appointed a new CDS and Service Chiefs to replace them.\u00a0<br \/><br \/>The newly appointed CDS and Service Chiefs are: Major-General Leo Irabor, Chief of Defence Staff; Major-General I. Attahiru, Chief of Army Staff; Rear Admiral AZ Gambo, Chief of Naval Staff; and Air-Vice Marshal I.O Amao, Chief of Air Staff<br \/><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has received a request from President Muhammadu Buhari to confirm the immediate former Chief of Defence Staff, General Abayomi Olonisakin as non\/career Ambassador-Designate.\u00a0 Also to be confirmed are the former Service Chiefs \u2013 Chief of Army Staff, Lt-Gen. Tukur Buratai; former Chief of Naval Staff, Vice Admiral Ibok Ekwe; former Chief of Air [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":31181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[31,142,1943],"class_list":["post-31183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","tag-buhari","tag-senate","tag-service-chiefs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183","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=31183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}