{"id":65027,"date":"2025-04-29T04:47:43","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:47:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65027"},"modified":"2025-04-29T04:47:43","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T04:47:43","slug":"national-assembly-opens-doors-to-digital-voices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/29\/national-assembly-opens-doors-to-digital-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"National Assembly Opens Doors to Digital Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a groundbreaking move, the National Assembly today welcomed top digital influencers to the first ever Speaker\u2019s New Media Exchange 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, declared that Nigeria\u2019s democracy must engage with online voices rather than silence them, insisting that inclusion is key to stronger governance.<\/p>\n<p>He outlined the 10th House\u2019s major reforms, including live streaming plenary sessions and pushing for greater representation of youth, women, and marginalized groups.<\/p>\n<p>Influencers such as Dr Joe Abah, O\u2019tega Ogra, and Olusegun Dada pledged to use their platforms to deepen civic participation.<\/p>\n<p>Speaker Abbas urged that the digital conversation must not end with the event, saying the online generation is already shaping Nigeria\u2019s future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo In a groundbreaking move, the National Assembly today welcomed top digital influencers to the first ever Speaker\u2019s New Media Exchange 2025. Speaker of the House of Representatives, Abbas Tajudeen, declared that Nigeria\u2019s democracy must engage with online voices rather than silence them, insisting that inclusion is key to stronger governance. He outlined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65027","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\/65027","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=65027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65029,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65027\/revisions\/65029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}