{"id":59361,"date":"2019-06-19T15:06:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:06:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metronewsng.online\/?p=51945"},"modified":"2019-06-19T15:06:41","modified_gmt":"2019-06-19T15:06:41","slug":"gov-okowa-appoints-5-special-advisers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/gov-okowa-appoints-5-special-advisers\/","title":{"rendered":"Gov. Okowa appoints 5 special advisers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has appointed five Special Advisers, including Prof. Sylvester Monye as Senior Policy Adviser.<\/p>\n

The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr Chiedu Ebie, announced this in a statement he made available to newsmen in Asaba on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

According to the SSG, Dr. Kingsley Emu, former Commissioner for Economic Planning in the immediate past administration in Delta, has been appointed Chief Economic Adviser.<\/p>\n

Others are Sen. Emmanuel Aguariavwodo, Mr Emmanuel Okoro and Mr Efe Ofoburuku whose portfolio were not stated.<\/p>\n

The SSG said that the appointees would be inaugurated on a later date.<\/p>\n

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that the Delta Assembly on Tuesday approved the governor\u2019s request for the appointment of 15 special advisers.<\/p>\n

Okowa also sent names of eight commiasioner nominees to the house for screening and confirmation and the assembly directed the nominees to appear before it on Thursday for the exercise.<\/p>\n

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Gov. Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta has appointed five Special Advisers, including Prof. Sylvester Monye as Senior Policy Adviser. The Secretary to the State Government (SSG), Mr Chiedu Ebie, announced this in a statement he made available to newsmen in Asaba on Wednesday. According to the SSG, Dr. Kingsley Emu, former Commissioner for Economic Planning in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":59347,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3711,3712],"class_list":["post-59361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-gov-ifeanyi-okowa","tag-special-advisers","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59361"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59361\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.metronews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}