{"id":79250,"date":"2025-11-24T03:56:02","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=79250"},"modified":"2025-11-24T03:56:02","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T03:56:02","slug":"national-essay-finalists-settle-in-with-dinner-at-amala-247","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/11\/24\/national-essay-finalists-settle-in-with-dinner-at-amala-247\/","title":{"rendered":"National Essay: Finalists Settle In With Dinner at Amala 247"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat and Huldah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The 26 finalists of the National Essay Competition have arrived in Abuja ahead of the highly anticipated grand finale scheduled for Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The students, who travelled from various states across the country, were treated to a warm welcome dinner at Amala 24\/7 in Gwarinpa, where organisers hosted them as part of the official reception activities.<\/p>\n<p>According to event handlers, the welcome dinner is designed to help the finalists relax, bond, and settle in after their journeys before the competition activities commence in full.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis dinner marks the first official engagement for the finalists. It allows them to interact informally, get comfortable, and ease into the competitive environment,\u201d one of the coordinators said.<\/p>\n<p>The programme continues on Tuesday with orientation and briefing sessions to prepare the contestants for the grand finale, which is expected to attract top personalities, education stakeholders, and distinguished guests.<\/p>\n<p>More updates are expected as the finalists proceed through the final stages of the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat and Huldah The 26 finalists of the National Essay Competition have arrived in Abuja ahead of the highly anticipated grand finale scheduled for Wednesday. The students, who travelled from various states across the country, were treated to a warm welcome dinner at Amala 24\/7 in Gwarinpa, where organisers hosted them as part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":79251,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,183,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-education","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79250","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=79250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79252,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79250\/revisions\/79252"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}