{"id":253328,"date":"2026-06-08T19:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T19:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253328"},"modified":"2026-06-09T17:50:59","modified_gmt":"2026-06-09T17:50:59","slug":"the-honourable-minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-ambassador-sola-enikanolaiye-assumed-duty-in-the-ministry-on-monday-8-june-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/the-honourable-minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-ambassador-sola-enikanolaiye-assumed-duty-in-the-ministry-on-monday-8-june-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"The Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, assumed duty in &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, assumed duty in the Ministry on Monday, 8 June 2026. The new Minister of State was warmly received by the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0 Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, the Permanent Secretary,\u00a0 Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, PhD, and Senior Directors and Staff of the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253330\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253329\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1-800x533.jpg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/PHOTO-2026-06-09-09-17-04-1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, assumed duty in the Ministry &hellip; <a title=\"The Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, assumed duty in &hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/the-honourable-minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-ambassador-sola-enikanolaiye-assumed-duty-in-the-ministry-on-monday-8-june-2026\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Honourable Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Sola Enikanolaiye, assumed duty in &hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmos-news","category-mfa-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=253328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253332,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253328\/revisions\/253332"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}