{"id":59970,"date":"2025-01-26T15:51:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=59970"},"modified":"2025-01-26T15:51:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T15:51:44","slug":"minister-lauds-nigeria-indias-strong-diplomatic-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/26\/minister-lauds-nigeria-indias-strong-diplomatic-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister lauds Nigeria-India&#8217;s strong diplomatic ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Our Correspondent\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has lauded the strong diplomatic ties and shared characteristics between Nigeria and India.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement marking India\u2019s Republic Day, Tuggar congratulated India\u2019s Foreign Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, highlighting the countries&#8217; shared attributes, including their multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic societies.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince establishing diplomatic relations decades ago, Nigeria and India have maintained strong ties and strategic partnerships, collaborating on initiatives to enhance political and economic prosperity,\u201d Tuggar said in a statement issued by Kimiebi Imomotimi Ebienfa, Acting Spokesperson for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the ongoing efforts to deepen bilateral relations and expressed Nigeria\u2019s continued support for India, wishing the Indian government and its people peace, progress, and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Tuggar emphasized that the shared values and partnerships between the two nations form a solid foundation for mutual growth and global collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Our Correspondent\u00a0 Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has lauded the strong diplomatic ties and shared characteristics between Nigeria and India. In a statement marking India\u2019s Republic Day, Tuggar congratulated India\u2019s Foreign Minister, Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, highlighting the countries&#8217; shared attributes, including their multi-religious, multi-lingual, and multi-ethnic societies. \u201cSince establishing diplomatic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":59971,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59972,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59970\/revisions\/59972"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}