{"id":74581,"date":"2025-08-30T21:16:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74581"},"modified":"2025-08-30T21:16:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T21:16:21","slug":"colombian-vice-president-begins-three-day-visit-to-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/30\/colombian-vice-president-begins-three-day-visit-to-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Colombian Vice President Begins Three-Day Visit to Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Colombia\u2019s Vice President, Her Excellency Francia M\u00e1rquez, arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday, commencing a three-day official visit to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The visit, which runs from August 30 to September 2, is aimed at deepening diplomatic and strategic relations between both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Key areas of cooperation under discussion include governance, trade, agriculture, energy, education, security, culture, and women\u2019s empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>Announcing the visit on his X handle, Nigeria\u2019s Vice President, Kashim Shettima, described it as \u201ca historic engagement\u201d that would open a new chapter in South-South collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis engagement will strengthen ties in trade, agriculture, education, energy, culture, and women\u2019s empowerment, building bridges and shaping a future of shared prosperity,\u201d Shettima said.<\/p>\n<p>The high-level meetings during the visit are expected to lay the groundwork for enhanced economic and diplomatic collaboration between Nigeria and Colombia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado &nbsp; Colombia\u2019s Vice President, Her Excellency Francia M\u00e1rquez, arrived at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, on Saturday, commencing a three-day official visit to Nigeria. The visit, which runs from August 30 to September 2, is aimed at deepening diplomatic and strategic relations between both countries. Key areas of cooperation under discussion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,173,1756,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-business","category-economy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74581","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=74581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74583,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74581\/revisions\/74583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}