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U.S Senate Confirms New Ambassador to Nigeria
- By Williams Ekanem
- Published September 6th, 2010
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UNITED States (U.S.) Senate has confirmed the nomination of a new Ambassador to Nigeria.
A statement by a US government said Terence P. McCulley, selected by President Barack Obama on June 28, to serve as ambassador to Nigeria, has now been confirmed by the Senate.
McCulley is a member of the Senior Foreign Service whose diplomatic career has been spent mostly in Africa or working on African issues. A tested US diplomat who has worked on varied diplomatic assignments involving Iraq, Europe and Africa, McCulley is fluent in French, and speaks some Zulu and Wolof. He and his wife have two sons
Prior to his appointment as ambassador to Nigeria, McCulley served as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.
While nominating him in June, earlier this year alongside few other US Ambassadors, Obama said: “I am proud to nominate such accomplished and dedicated individuals to fill these important roles. They will be valuable additions to my administration as we work to confront our challenges at home and abroad, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.”
The incoming US Ambassador to Nigeria was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, and is expected to take over from the current US Ambassador, Robin Renee Sanders, who had presented her credentials to the Federal Government on December 3, 2007.
Sanders had been appointed in November 2007 by the immediate past US President, George W. Bush (jnr), and will be marking her three years in office later this year. Incidentally, it was also the same Bush who nominated McCulley to be U.S. Ambassador to Mali in May, 2005.
Both Ambassadors Sanders and McCulley are career members of the US senior Foreign Service.
A statement by a US government said Terence P. McCulley, selected by President Barack Obama on June 28, to serve as ambassador to Nigeria, has now been confirmed by the Senate.
McCulley is a member of the Senior Foreign Service whose diplomatic career has been spent mostly in Africa or working on African issues. A tested US diplomat who has worked on varied diplomatic assignments involving Iraq, Europe and Africa, McCulley is fluent in French, and speaks some Zulu and Wolof. He and his wife have two sons
Prior to his appointment as ambassador to Nigeria, McCulley served as the deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Copenhagen, Denmark.
While nominating him in June, earlier this year alongside few other US Ambassadors, Obama said: “I am proud to nominate such accomplished and dedicated individuals to fill these important roles. They will be valuable additions to my administration as we work to confront our challenges at home and abroad, and I look forward to working with them in the months and years ahead.”
The incoming US Ambassador to Nigeria was confirmed by the Senate on August 5, and is expected to take over from the current US Ambassador, Robin Renee Sanders, who had presented her credentials to the Federal Government on December 3, 2007.
Sanders had been appointed in November 2007 by the immediate past US President, George W. Bush (jnr), and will be marking her three years in office later this year. Incidentally, it was also the same Bush who nominated McCulley to be U.S. Ambassador to Mali in May, 2005.
Both Ambassadors Sanders and McCulley are career members of the US senior Foreign Service.
