{"id":252437,"date":"2025-09-12T13:02:24","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T13:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252437"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:18:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:18:50","slug":"ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-the-minister-of-finance-mr-wale-edun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-the-minister-of-finance-mr-wale-edun\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, met with the Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, met with the Minister of Finance\/Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Mr. Wale Edun, to advance discussions on sustainable financing for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic Missions. Strategic funding remains the backbone of effective diplomacy.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The discussions focused on ensuring that the 2025 budget reflects Nigeria\u2019s foreign policy priorities while also laying a solid foundation for the 2026 fiscal year. With adequate resources, Nigerian diplomats will be better positioned to safeguard national interests and strengthen the country\u2019s role on the global stage.<\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, met with the Minister of Finance\/Coordinating &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, met with the Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-the-minister-of-finance-mr-wale-edun\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, met with the Minister of Finance, Mr. Wale Edun.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252437","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\/252437","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=252437"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252439,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252437\/revisions\/252439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}