{"id":77623,"date":"2025-10-28T05:27:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:27:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=77623"},"modified":"2025-10-28T05:27:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T05:27:24","slug":"new-centre-to-amplify-voices-of-abujas-original-inhabitants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/28\/new-centre-to-amplify-voices-of-abujas-original-inhabitants\/","title":{"rendered":"New Centre to Amplify Voices of Abuja\u2019s Original Inhabitants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Executive Director of CHRICED, Dr. Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi, says the newly launched centre will help end the \u201ccycles of exclusion and invisibility\u201d faced by Abuja\u2019s original inhabitants.<\/p>\n<p>Describing it as \u201ca sanctuary of memory and a lighthouse for dignity,\u201d Zikirullahi said the centre will promote research, dialogue, and civic engagement to advance the rights and inclusion of the FCT\u2019s natives.<\/p>\n<p>He commended the MacArthur Foundation, the European Union Delegation to Nigeria, and other partners for their support.<\/p>\n<p>The Africa Director of the MacArthur Foundation, Dr. Kole Ahmed Shettima, said the initiative aligns with the Foundation\u2019s commitment to empowering communities within the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola The Executive Director of CHRICED, Dr. Ibrahim M. Zikirullahi, says the newly launched centre will help end the \u201ccycles of exclusion and invisibility\u201d faced by Abuja\u2019s original inhabitants. Describing it as \u201ca sanctuary of memory and a lighthouse for dignity,\u201d Zikirullahi said the centre will promote research, dialogue, and civic engagement to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":77624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623","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=77623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77625,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77623\/revisions\/77625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}