{"id":77571,"date":"2025-10-27T07:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77571"},"modified":"2025-10-27T07:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T07:45:29","slug":"wike-arrives-in-dubai-for-2025-asia-pacific-cities-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/27\/wike-arrives-in-dubai-for-2025-asia-pacific-cities-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Wike Arrives in Dubai for 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"126\" data-end=\"191\"><strong data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"212\">By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"193\" data-end=\"212\">\n<p data-start=\"214\" data-end=\"435\">Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has arrived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to participate in the 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors\u2019 Forum (2025APCS) holding this week.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"437\" data-end=\"597\">His Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, confirmed the development in a statement issued in Dubai on Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"599\" data-end=\"860\">Wike, who departed Abuja on Sunday, arrived in Dubai around 4 a.m. on Monday and was received by Ambassador Zayyanu Ibrahim, Nigeria\u2019s Consul General in Dubai, along with senior officials of the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"862\" data-end=\"1184\">The minister\u2019s delegation includes Engr. Richard Yunana Dauda (Acting Executive Secretary, FCDA), Benedict Daudu (SSA on Legal and Multilateral Cooperation), Mukhtar Galadima (Director, Development Control), Engr. Chuks Udeh (Director, Engineering Services), and Sani Musa Daura (Director, Protocol).<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1186\" data-end=\"1395\">On Tuesday, Wike is expected to join a panel discussion where he will address questions about the Federal Capital Territory and share insights with other mayors and city leaders attending the summit.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1397\" data-end=\"1660\">Organised by the Brisbane City Council, Australia, the Asia Pacific Cities Summit fosters dialogue and trade collaboration among mayors, business leaders, and young professionals from across Asia Pacific, the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has arrived in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to participate in the 2025 Asia Pacific Cities Summit and Mayors\u2019 Forum (2025APCS) holding this week. His Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, confirmed the development in a statement issued in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":77572,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77571","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\/77571","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=77571"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77571\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77573,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77571\/revisions\/77573"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}