{"id":252450,"date":"2025-09-24T23:23:44","date_gmt":"2025-09-24T23:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252450"},"modified":"2025-09-25T13:35:47","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T13:35:47","slug":"amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-vp-kashim-shettima-dr-jumoke-oduwole-and-top-executives-of-leading-u-s-companies-at-a-high-level-roundtable-convened-by-the-business-council-for-international-understanding-b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-vp-kashim-shettima-dr-jumoke-oduwole-and-top-executives-of-leading-u-s-companies-at-a-high-level-roundtable-convened-by-the-business-council-for-international-understanding-b\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, VP Kashim Shettima, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole and Top Executives of leading U.S. comp&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has underscored the strategic importance of renewed U.S.\u2013Nigeria cooperation, calling for stronger investment ties during a high-level roundtable convened by the Business Council for International Understanding (BCIU) on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA).<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting, which brought together Vice President Kashim Shettima and top executives of leading U.S. companies, focused on investment opportunities in Nigeria\u2019s priority sectors, including energy, agriculture, technology, and finance.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Speaking at the forum, Tuggar urged Washington to prioritize partnerships with anchor states in Africa. \u201cThe United States should revert to working with anchor states in Africa, such as Nigeria. Our population, abundant resources, and continental scale make Nigeria a natural destination for U.S. business partnerships. Such a collaboration will drive down costs, allow access to a vast talent pool, and help integrate millions of informal businesses into the formal economy,\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, has underscored the strategic importance of renewed U.S.\u2013Nigeria &hellip; <a title=\"Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, VP Kashim Shettima, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole and Top Executives of leading U.S. comp&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-vp-kashim-shettima-dr-jumoke-oduwole-and-top-executives-of-leading-u-s-companies-at-a-high-level-roundtable-convened-by-the-business-council-for-international-understanding-b\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, VP Kashim Shettima, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole and Top Executives of leading U.S. comp&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252452,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252450","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\/252450","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=252450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252453,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252450\/revisions\/252453"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}