{"id":211751,"date":"2025-10-29T13:04:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-senate-to-screen-new-service-chiefs-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2025-10-29T13:04:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T11:04:53","slug":"nigeria-senate-to-screen-new-service-chiefs-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-senate-to-screen-new-service-chiefs-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Senate to Screen New Service Chiefs Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">President Tinubu had on 25 October announced the appointment of the new service chiefs after relieving their predecessors of their duties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The Senate will on Wednesday screen and possibly confirm the newly appointed service chiefs<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced this during plenary after reading a letter from President Bola Tinubu seeking the immediate confirmation of the Chief of Defence Staff, Olufemi Oluyede, a general.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nKeep up with the latest headlines on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" \/a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510290159.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>President Tinubu had on 25 October announced the appointment of the new service chiefs after relieving their predecessors of their duties. The Senate will on Wednesday screen and possibly confirm the newly appointed service chiefs The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, announced this during plenary after reading a letter from President Bola Tinubu seeking the immediate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":211752,"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":[258,256,7493,257,4687,393,21181,8115,5188,254,12446],"class_list":["post-211751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chiefs","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-screen","tag-senate","tag-service","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wednesday"],"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\/211751","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=211751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}