{"id":61669,"date":"2025-02-21T20:51:39","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:51:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61669"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:51:39","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:51:39","slug":"wike-strengthens-abujas-global-ties-boosts-business-friendly-agenda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/21\/wike-strengthens-abujas-global-ties-boosts-business-friendly-agenda\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Strengthens Abuja\u2019s Global Ties, Boosts Business-Friendly Agenda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed his commitment to fostering a business-friendly environment in Abuja while enhancing diplomatic ties with Egypt and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E. Mohammed Fouad, Wike praised Egypt\u2019s contributions to Nigeria\u2019s economy, particularly the work of Arab Contractors on the vital Airport Expressway to Kuje project.<\/p>\n<p>He also expressed interest in deepening partnerships in agriculture and vocational training.<\/p>\n<p>The Egyptian envoy lauded Wike\u2019s infrastructure strides, commending his recognition as \u201cMr. Project\u201d and \u201cBest Minister of 2024.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the success of Arab Contractors as a model for Nigeria-Egypt collaboration, with over 95% Nigerian employees.<\/p>\n<p>In a separate meeting, Wike hosted Moroccan Ambassador Moha Tagma to discuss stronger diplomatic ties and support for constructing Morocco\u2019s new embassy in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>Wike pledged full assistance and accepted an invitation to visit Rabat for future partnership talks.<\/p>\n<p>Reaffirming his commitment to the diplomatic community, Wike emphasized his administration\u2019s focus on providing a secure, supportive environment for international relations and business operations in the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Minister, Nyesom Wike, has reaffirmed his commitment to fostering a business-friendly environment in Abuja while enhancing diplomatic ties with Egypt and Morocco. During a recent meeting with the Egyptian Ambassador to Nigeria, H.E. Mohammed Fouad, Wike praised Egypt\u2019s contributions to Nigeria\u2019s economy, particularly the work of Arab Contractors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669","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=61669"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61670,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61669\/revisions\/61670"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}