{"id":61390,"date":"2025-02-17T07:45:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61390"},"modified":"2025-02-17T07:45:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-17T07:45:30","slug":"relocate-our-mission-office-to-abuja-taiwan-urges-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/17\/relocate-our-mission-office-to-abuja-taiwan-urges-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Relocate Our Mission Office to Abuja, Taiwan Urges FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Emmanuel Ogbodo<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Taiwan has appealed to the Nigerian government to relocate its Mission Office from Lagos to Abuja to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties.<\/p>\n<p>Andy Yih-Ping Liu, Taiwan\u2019s Head of Mission in Nigeria, made the call during a media roundtable in Abuja, emphasizing Taiwan\u2019s expertise in agriculture, mineral resources, and energy.<\/p>\n<p>He assured that Taiwan operates transparently and does not engage in illegal mining or unethical deals.<\/p>\n<p>The office was moved to Lagos in 2017 under former President Muhammadu Buhari, despite most foreign missions being in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Liu urged President Bola Tinubu to reverse this, reaffirming Nigeria\u2019s sovereignty as Africa\u2019s largest democracy.<\/p>\n<p>He also pushed for a new Investment Promotion and Protection Agreement (IPPA), and the revival of a 1991 bilateral pact to attract Taiwanese investments.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, House Committee Chair Inuwa Garba highlighted the need for stronger collaboration with Taiwan in science, technology, and engineering to drive Nigeria\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emmanuel Ogbodo Taiwan has appealed to the Nigerian government to relocate its Mission Office from Lagos to Abuja to strengthen diplomatic and economic ties. Andy Yih-Ping Liu, Taiwan\u2019s Head of Mission in Nigeria, made the call during a media roundtable in Abuja, emphasizing Taiwan\u2019s expertise in agriculture, mineral resources, and energy. He assured that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":61391,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61390","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61392,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61390\/revisions\/61392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}