Buhari deploys 4 new ambassadors 

PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has approved the immediate deployment of four out of the newly appointed Ambassadors-Designate.

They are Professor Tijjani Bande, (Kebbi State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the  United Nations Headquarters in New York and

Itegboje Sunday Samson (Edo State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Deputy Representative, Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the  United Nations Headquarters in New York.

The others are  Kadiri Ayinla Audu, (Kwara State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative  to the Permanent  Mission of Nigeria to the United Nations Offices in Geneva and Bankole A. Adeoye, (Ogun State) who is to proceed as Nigeria’s Ambassador/Representative to the Embassy of Nigeria/Permanent Mission to the African Union  in Addis Ababa.

A statement issued by the Special Adviser to the president on media and publicity, Femi Adesina, in Abuja on Friday, was silent on the fate of the remaining ambassadors-designate recently cleared by the Senate.