President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate deployment of four out of the newly appointed Ambassadors-designate as follows, Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, has informed.
The envoys approved for deployment include Professor Tijjani Bande (Kebbi State), Itegboje Sunday Samson (Edo State), Kadiri Ayinla Audu (Kwara State) and Bankole A. Adeoye (Ogun State).
Femi Adesina, in a statement he issued in Abuja on Friday, said, Professor Tijjani Bande would immediately proceed to his new post as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeira to the United Nations Headquarters in New York, while Itegboje Samson would proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Headquarters in New York.
Also in the statement, Kadiri Audu would proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Offices in Geneva while Bankola Adeoye to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Embassy of Nigeria/Permanent Mission to the African Union in Addis Ababa.
