{"id":75741,"date":"2025-09-27T09:16:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:16:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=75741"},"modified":"2025-09-27T09:16:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T09:16:06","slug":"tinubu-arrives-lagos-on-working-visit-ahead-of-independence-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/09\/27\/tinubu-arrives-lagos-on-working-visit-ahead-of-independence-anniversary\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Arrives Lagos on Working Visit Ahead of Independence Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday arrived in Lagos on a working visit as Nigeria prepares for a low-key celebration of its 65th Independence Anniversary.<\/p>\n<p>His arrival was confirmed in a statement issued late Friday by presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga.<\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the President travelled to Lagos after attending the coronation of the Olubadan of Ibadanland, His Imperial Majesty Oba Rashidi Ladoja, in Ibadan, Oyo State.<\/p>\n<p>While in Lagos, Tinubu is expected to hold strategic meetings with private sector leaders and senior government officials.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga further disclosed that the President will visit Imo State on Tuesday, September 30, to inaugurate projects executed by Governor Hope Uzodimma.<\/p>\n<p>He added that as part of the Independence anniversary activities, Tinubu will commission the remodelled National Theatre in Lagos, recently renamed the Wole Soyinka Centre for Culture and the Creative Arts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu &nbsp; President Bola Ahmed Tinubu on Friday arrived in Lagos on a working visit as Nigeria prepares for a low-key celebration of its 65th Independence Anniversary. His arrival was confirmed in a statement issued late Friday by presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga. According to the statement, the President travelled to Lagos after attending [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":75742,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,186],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75741","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\/75741","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=75741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75743,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75741\/revisions\/75743"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}