{"id":66188,"date":"2025-05-21T11:07:06","date_gmt":"2025-05-21T11:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=66188"},"modified":"2025-05-22T04:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T04:38:09","slug":"fct-moves-to-light-up-abuja-with-arts-entertainment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/21\/fct-moves-to-light-up-abuja-with-arts-entertainment\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Moves to Light Up Abuja with Arts, Entertainment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration is stepping up efforts to transform Abuja into a thriving center for arts, music and entertainment through fresh partnerships with key industry stakeholders.<\/p>\n<p>At a stakeholders\u2019 forum hosted by the Arts and Culture Department, experts, guilds and cultural troupes gathered at the Social Development Secretariat to chart a new course for the city\u2019s creative industry.<\/p>\n<p>Permanent Secretary of the Secretariat, Olubunmi Olowookere, described Abuja as a city brimming with artistic potential but in need of structure, investment and policy support to match global standards.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur dream is to make Abuja a cultural capital like Lagos, alive with creativity, rhythm and talent,\u201d she said, pledging to push stakeholders\u2019 recommendations to FCT Minister Nyesom Wike for immediate consideration.<\/p>\n<p>Among the groups present were the Performing Musicians Association of Nigeria, the Actors Guild, Directors Guild and indigenous troupes, all committed to building a sustainable future for the capital\u2019s creative economy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Anifowoshe Oladipupo The Federal Capital Territory Administration is stepping up efforts to transform Abuja into a thriving center for arts, music and entertainment through fresh partnerships with key industry stakeholders. At a stakeholders\u2019 forum hosted by the Arts and Culture Department, experts, guilds and cultural troupes gathered at the Social Development Secretariat to chart [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":66198,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-66188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66188","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=66188"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66270,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66188\/revisions\/66270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}