{"id":72255,"date":"2025-08-06T08:39:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72255"},"modified":"2025-08-06T08:39:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T08:39:21","slug":"akpabio-wins-global-peace-award-for-reviving-nigerias-voice-on-world-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/06\/akpabio-wins-global-peace-award-for-reviving-nigerias-voice-on-world-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Akpabio Wins Global Peace Award for Reviving Nigeria\u2019s Voice on World Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Senate President Godswill Akpabio has been named recipient of the International Peace Award by the Global Peace Movement International (GPMI), for his role in restoring Nigeria\u2019s membership in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), after more than 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>GPMI described the feat as a \u201clandmark achievement\u201d that has repositioned Nigeria globally and highlighted Akpabio\u2019s \u201cexceptional leadership and commitment to global diplomacy and parliamentary excellence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Akpabio, now an Executive Member of the IPU and a Commissioner among world leaders, is expected to receive the award in August 2025.<\/p>\n<p>GPMI noted that Akpabio\u2019s efforts in strengthening international cooperation continue to inspire a new generation of leaders and reinforce his image as a statesman committed to peace, diplomacy, and national advancement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David Senate President Godswill Akpabio has been named recipient of the International Peace Award by the Global Peace Movement International (GPMI), for his role in restoring Nigeria\u2019s membership in the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU), after more than 50 years. GPMI described the feat as a \u201clandmark achievement\u201d that has repositioned Nigeria globally and highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255","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=72255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72257,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72255\/revisions\/72257"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}