{"id":251526,"date":"2024-03-25T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-25T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=251526"},"modified":"2025-05-26T04:25:51","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T04:25:51","slug":"ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-received-in-audience-professor-khaled-el-enany","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-received-in-audience-professor-khaled-el-enany\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) received in audience Professor Khaled El-Enany"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 25th March, 2024 the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) received in audience Professor Khaled El-Enany, the African Union and Arab League candidate for the seat of the Director General (DG) of UNESCO.<br \/>\nThe aspiring candidate is on a tour of African countries to seek support for his candidacy as the next DG of UNESCO. He used the occasion to share his aspirations for Africa if elected.<br \/>\nThe Honourable Minister in response informed that Nigeria was interested in having more heritage sites, in addition to the two currently listed by UNESCO. He also reiterated Nigeria\u2019s call for the restitution of its artifacts being held by several countries of the world.<br \/>\nProfessor Khaled El-Enany, born in 1971 is a distinguished Egyptian egyptologist, and General Supervisor of the prestigious Egyptian Museum in Cairo and the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization (a UNESCO flagship project).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, 25th March, 2024 the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) received &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) received in audience Professor Khaled El-Enany\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-m-tuggar-oon-received-in-audience-professor-khaled-el-enany\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Yusuf M. Tuggar (OON) received in audience Professor Khaled El-Enany<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":251527,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251526","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\/251526","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=251526"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251528,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251526\/revisions\/251528"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}