{"id":251326,"date":"2023-11-03T20:00:17","date_gmt":"2023-11-03T20:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=251326"},"modified":"2025-05-26T04:33:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T04:33:00","slug":"ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-played-host-to-her-excellency-ms-catherine-colonna-minister-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs-of-the-french-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-played-host-to-her-excellency-ms-catherine-colonna-minister-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs-of-the-french-republic\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) played host to Her Excellency, Ms. Catherine Colonna, Minister for &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) played host to Her Excellency, Ms. Catherine Colonna, Minister for Europe and Foreign Affairs of the French Republic and her delegation during the bilateral talks held today, 3rd November, 2023.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Discussions centred on strengthening cooperation in the areas of culture and creative art, digital technology, job creation, restitution of loots, and education as well as cooperation at the multilateral level.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">After the bilateral talks, the Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs received the visit of the Minister of Finance &amp; Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Chief Adebayo Olawale Edun as they both watched the Minister of Communications, Innovation &amp; Digital Economy, Dr. Bosun Tijani and the visiting French Foreign Minister witness to the I-DICE Financial Agreement between the French Agency For Development and the Federal Ministry of Finance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The visiting French Foreign Minister is in Nigeria at the invitation of His Excellency Kashim Shettima (GCON), Vice President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria to discuss and strengthen partnership within the framework of the Investment in Digital and Creative Enterprises ( I- DICE) Agreement.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x11i5rnm xat24cr x1mh8g0r x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The I-DICE program is an initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria, aimed at promoting entrepreneurship and innovation in digital technology and creative industry sectors. The focus is on job creation for the youths, which would ultimately contribute to the development of the Nigerian economy.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hon. Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) played host to Her Excellency, &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) played host to Her Excellency, Ms. Catherine Colonna, Minister for &hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-played-host-to-her-excellency-ms-catherine-colonna-minister-for-europe-and-foreign-affairs-of-the-french-republic\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) played host to Her Excellency, Ms. Catherine Colonna, Minister for &hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251327,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmfa-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251326"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251328,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251326\/revisions\/251328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}