{"id":74370,"date":"2020-05-14T11:45:55","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T03:45:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74370"},"modified":"2020-05-14T11:46:51","modified_gmt":"2020-05-14T03:46:51","slug":"nigerias-president-appoints-ex-un-diplomat-chief-of-staff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=74370","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria&#8217;s president appoints ex-UN diplomat chief of staff"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanaweb.com\/GhanaHomePage\/africa\/Nigeria-s-president-appoints-ex-UN-diplomat-chief-of-staff-951256?gallery=1\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/972\/97239652.295.jpg\" alt=\"New chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari\"\/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><strong><em>New chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>ABUJA, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff, secretary to the government said.<br><br>Gambari was Nigeria\u2019s minister for external affairs during Buhari\u2019s military regime from 1984 to 1985 and later became an under-secretary-general at the United Nations.<br><br>He replaces Abba Kyari, who died last month after contracting the coronavirus and was one of the most powerful men in Nigeria, acting as a gatekeeper to the president.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nNigeria\u2019s coronavirus related deaths have increased from 150 to 158.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Confirmed coronavirus cases in Nigeria have also increased to 4,787 after the country recorded some 146 new cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is according to the Nigeria Centre for Disease Control.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a tweet on Tuesday night, May 12, the Centre says some 959 persons have been discharged. &#8212; NNN-AGENCIES<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New chief of staff, Ibrahim Gambari ABUJA, May 14 (NNN-AGENCIES) &#8212; Nigeria\u2019s President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Ibrahim Gambari as his new chief of staff, secretary to the government said. Gambari was Nigeria\u2019s minister for external affairs during Buhari\u2019s military regime from 1984 to 1985 and later became an under-secretary-general at the United Nations. He replaces [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":74372,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[213],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74370"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74370\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/74372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}