{"id":207149,"date":"2025-09-14T23:20:31","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-adamawa-assembly-grants-fintiri-power-to-appoint-acting-emirs-chiefs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T23:20:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T21:20:31","slug":"nigeria-adamawa-assembly-grants-fintiri-power-to-appoint-acting-emirs-chiefs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-adamawa-assembly-grants-fintiri-power-to-appoint-acting-emirs-chiefs\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Adamawa Assembly Grants Fintiri Power to Appoint Acting Emirs, Chiefs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\"><em>The Adamawa State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill amending the state&#8217;s Chiefs&#8217; Appointment and Deposition Law No. 20 of 2025, empowering the governor to appoint a prince from the ruling house to act in place of an incapacitated emir or chief.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">The bill was approved after the House Ad-hoc Committee, chaired by Deputy Speaker Mohammed Buba Jijiwa (Jada\/Mbulo Constituency), presented its report during Wednesday&#8217;s plenary session.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"44\">In its report, the committee suggested changing the bill&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509120290.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Adamawa State House of Assembly on Thursday passed a bill amending the state&#8217;s Chiefs&#8217; Appointment and Deposition Law No. 20 of 2025, empowering the governor to appoint a prince from the ruling house to act in place of an incapacitated emir or chief. The bill was approved after the House Ad-hoc Committee, chaired by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[8865,11716,258,256,12489,7269,7493,27938,45256,10875,257,4687,393,7047,254],"class_list":["post-207149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-acting","tag-adamawa","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoint","tag-assembly","tag-chiefs","tag-emirs","tag-fintiri","tag-grants","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-power","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}