{"id":145824,"date":"2019-08-22T12:57:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145824"},"modified":"2019-08-22T12:57:46","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T11:57:46","slug":"what-festus-keyamo-said-after-resuming-as-niger-delta-minister-of-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=145824","title":{"rendered":"What Festus Keyamo said after resuming as Niger Delta Minister of State"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Festus Keyamo on Thursday resumed office as the Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs.<\/p>\n

DAILY POST had reported that President Buhari on Wednesday swore-in and assigned portfolios to his 43 Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.<\/p>\n

Buhari designated Godswill Akpabio as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, while Festus Keyamo was named the Minister of State for the same ministry.<\/p>\n

Speaking during the ceremony, Buhari charged his new ministers to work towards ensuring a better Nigeria and a country which the citizenry would be proud of.<\/p>\n

Upon resumption on Thursday, Keyamo declared that he is prepared and ready to experience his new position as minister of state for Niger Delta.<\/p>\n

He further disclosed that he would henceforth not be in charge of his law firm, as he embarks on the short leave of absence from law practice.<\/p>\n

Keyamo disclosed this on his official Twitter page.<\/p>\n

He wrote: \u201cArrived my new office punctually this morning, which is key to motivate the workforce. It is a new challenge which I always wanted to experience.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhilst my law offices continue to run at full throttle with capable hands, I take this short leave of absence to serve my fatherland.\u201d<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Festus Keyamo on Thursday resumed office as the Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs. DAILY POST had reported that President Buhari on Wednesday swore-in and assigned portfolios to his 43 Ministers at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. Buhari designated Godswill Akpabio as Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, while Festus Keyamo was named the Minister of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138599,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5728],"class_list":["post-145824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","tag-festus-keyamo"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=145824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145824\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/138599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=145824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=145824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=145824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}