{"id":70714,"date":"2025-07-16T09:26:38","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:26:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=70714"},"modified":"2025-07-16T09:26:38","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T09:26:38","slug":"london-mayor-khan-makes-first-visit-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/16\/london-mayor-khan-makes-first-visit-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"London Mayor Khan Makes First Visit to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>London Mayor Sadiq Khan has embarked on his first official visit to Nigeria and Africa, since assuming office, leading a delegation of 26 UK-based unicorn companies to strengthen business ties between London and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>During his visit, Khan expressed admiration for Lagos&#8217; vibrant culture and thriving business environment.<\/p>\n<p>He visited the Nike Art Gallery, a renowned cultural center dedicated to preserving Nigeria\u2019s rich artistic heritage and empowering a new generation of creatives.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview, Khan emphasized the importance of connecting London and Lagos in ways that foster future developmental innovations.<\/p>\n<p>The London mayor also paid his respects to the late former Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari, describing his passing as a sad loss for the nation.<\/p>\n<p>Khan extended his condolences to Buhari\u2019s family and the Nigerian people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; London Mayor Sadiq Khan has embarked on his first official visit to Nigeria and Africa, since assuming office, leading a delegation of 26 UK-based unicorn companies to strengthen business ties between London and Nigeria. During his visit, Khan expressed admiration for Lagos&#8217; vibrant culture and thriving business environment. He visited the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":70715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70714","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\/70714","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70716,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70714\/revisions\/70716"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}