{"id":2921,"date":"2024-10-25T09:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2024-10-25T09:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T09:51:12","slug":"nigeria-newsforeign-object-hits-vice-president-shettimas-plane-in-us-pulls-out-of-commonwealth-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/2024\/10\/25\/nigeria-newsforeign-object-hits-vice-president-shettimas-plane-in-us-pulls-out-of-commonwealth-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria NewsForeign Object Hits Vice President, Shettima\u2019s Plane In US, Pulls Out Of Commonwealth Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, on Thursday, aborted his trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa, \u00a0President Bola Tinubu delegated Shettima to represent Nigeria at the forthcoming meeting.<\/h3>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-3\">\n<div id=\"v-naijanews-v1-0\" aria-hidden=\"true\">\n<div id=\"_vdo_ads_player_ai_24752\" class=\"vdo_video_unit vdo_content\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The presidency, however, on Thursday night, announced that Shettima\u2019s trip had been cancelled, revealing that a foreign object hit his plane during a stopover at JFK Airport in New York.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga who said a ministerial delegation will now represent Nigeria stated,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe foreign object damaged the cockpit windscreen of the plane.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cPresident Tinubu, acting promptly, has approved a ministerial delegation to represent Nigeria at the summit in the Samoa capital of Apia while the plane\u2019s repair has commenced.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201dThe delegation, which will now represent Nigeria at the 2024 Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Samoa, is being led by the Minister of Environment, Balarabe Abass Lawal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe summit began on the Pacific island on 21 October. It will end on 26 October. Vice President Shettima and foreign minister Yusuf Tuggar have left New York for Nigeria.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vice-President, Kashim Shettima, on Thursday, aborted his trip to the 2024 Commonwealth Heads of Government Summit in Samoa, \u00a0President Bola Tinubu delegated Shettima to represent Nigeria at the forthcoming meeting. The presidency, however, on&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2922,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2923,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2921\/revisions\/2923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beadysword.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}