{"id":252440,"date":"2025-09-12T14:00:50","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T14:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252440"},"modified":"2025-09-15T13:28:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T13:28:17","slug":"ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-h-e-senator-abubakar-atiku-bagudu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-h-e-senator-abubakar-atiku-bagudu\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar met with H.E. Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"58\" data-end=\"330\">The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, held a meeting with the Hon. Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, H.E. Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu, CON, to discuss optimizing the Ministry of Foreign Affairs\u2019 2025 budget and advancing preparations for the 2026 budget cycle.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"332\" data-end=\"666\">The discussions emphasized strengthening institutional capacity, safeguarding the welfare of staff serving abroad, and ensuring that Nigeria\u2019s diplomatic missions are strategically positioned to deliver results. These measures are considered vital for projecting Nigeria as a reliable and influential voice in international affairs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, held a meeting with the Hon. &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar met with H.E. Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-met-with-h-e-senator-abubakar-atiku-bagudu\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar met with H.E. Senator Abubakar Atiku Bagudu.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252441,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252440","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\/252440","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=252440"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252440\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252442,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252440\/revisions\/252442"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252440"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252440"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252440"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}