{"id":73539,"date":"2025-08-19T09:23:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73539"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:23:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T09:23:32","slug":"tinubu-arrives-japan-for-ticad9-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/19\/tinubu-arrives-japan-for-ticad9-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Arrives Japan for TICAD9 Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu arrived in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday ahead of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), a three-day summit scheduled for August 20\u201322 at the Pacifico Yokohama.<\/p>\n<p>Tinubu\u2019s aircraft touched down at Haneda International Airport at 12:50 a.m. local time, where he was received by Japan\u2019s Special Envoy for TICAD, Ambassador Hideo Matsubara; Nigeria\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Tuggar; and officials of the Nigerian Embassy in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1993, TICAD is a triennial forum initiated by the Japanese government in partnership with the United Nations, UNDP, the African Union Commission, and the World Bank.<\/p>\n<p>The conference, which alternates between Africa and Japan, last held in Tunisia in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s edition, themed \u201cCo-create Innovative Solutions with Africa,\u201d will focus on driving private investment, innovation, and institutional reforms to accelerate growth, while also promoting resilience, peace, and human security across the continent.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu is also expected to hold bilateral meetings with world leaders and engage top Japanese executives with significant investments in Nigeria, in a bid to strengthen partnerships and open new avenues for collaboration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado President Bola Tinubu arrived in Tokyo, Japan, on Tuesday ahead of the Ninth Tokyo International Conference on African Development (TICAD9), a three-day summit scheduled for August 20\u201322 at the Pacifico Yokohama. Tinubu\u2019s aircraft touched down at Haneda International Airport at 12:50 a.m. local time, where he was received by Japan\u2019s Special Envoy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":73540,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539","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\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73539"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73541,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73539\/revisions\/73541"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}