{"id":8796,"date":"2018-03-13T09:47:03","date_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=8796"},"modified":"2018-03-13T09:49:31","modified_gmt":"2018-03-13T15:49:31","slug":"barely-24-hours-after-his-trip-to-nigeria-trump-sacks-tillerson-as-us-secretary-of-state-twitter","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/barely-24-hours-after-his-trip-to-nigeria-trump-sacks-tillerson-as-us-secretary-of-state-twitter\/","title":{"rendered":"Barely 24 hours after his trip to Nigeria, Trump Sacks Tillerson As US Secretary Of State On Twitter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has been sacked by the US President, Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Trump replaced Tillerson with Mike Pompeo who is the Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).<br \/>\nThe United States President announced took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Tuesday, March 13 to make the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>President Trump also named Gina Haspel as the Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Haspel becomes the first woman to occupy the position.<\/p>\n<p>Trump tweeted: \u201cMike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State\u201d, the United States President wrote on the micro-blogging site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all\u201d, he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump\u00a0\u2714@realDonaldTrump<\/p>\n<p>Mike Pompeo, Director of the CIA, will become our new Secretary of State. He will do a fantastic job! Thank you to Rex Tillerson for his service! Gina Haspel will become the new Director of the CIA, and the first woman so chosen. Congratulations to all!<br \/>\n6:44 AM &#8211; Mar 13, 2018<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8797\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8C6ADE6A-C326-49CC-AD52-D3009F3431F7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"557\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8C6ADE6A-C326-49CC-AD52-D3009F3431F7.jpeg 481w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8C6ADE6A-C326-49CC-AD52-D3009F3431F7-300x281.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/03\/8C6ADE6A-C326-49CC-AD52-D3009F3431F7-100x94.jpeg 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 557px) 100vw, 557px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Tillerson\u2019s replacement comes less than twenty-four (24) hours after he rounded off his visit\u00a0to five (5) African countries, including\u00a0Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United States Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson has been sacked by the US President, Donald Trump. Trump replaced Tillerson with Mike Pompeo who is the Director of Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). The United States President announced took to the micro-blogging site, Twitter on Tuesday, March 13 to make the announcement. President Trump also named Gina [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"news-category":[323,322],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Barely 24 hours after his trip to Nigeria, Trump Sacks Tillerson As US Secretary Of State On Twitter<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Barely 24 hours after his trip to Nigeria Trump Sacks Tillerson As US Secretary Of State On Twitter\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/nigerianews.ca\/news\/barely-24-hours-after-his-trip-to-nigeria-trump-sacks-tillerson-as-us-secretary-of-state-twitter\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta 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