{"id":252677,"date":"2025-12-10T13:51:50","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T13:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252677"},"modified":"2025-12-12T13:56:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T13:56:51","slug":"ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-phd-received-her-excellency-the-ambassador-of-finland-to-nigeria-ms-sanna-selin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-phd-received-her-excellency-the-ambassador-of-finland-to-nigeria-ms-sanna-selin\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, received Her Excellency, the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ms Sann&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>Nigeria and Finland Deepen Strategic Partnership as Permanent Secretary Hosts Ambassador Selin for Comprehensive Diplomatic Engagement.<\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">On 10 December 2025, the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, PhD, received Her Excellency, the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ms Sanna Selin, at Tafawa Balewa House for a high-level bilateral engagement aimed at deepening cooperation between both countries.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">During the meeting, discussions covered a wide range of strategic areas, including digital public infrastructure, cybersecurity, internal security technology, sustainable mining, healthcare development, renewable energy, agriculture, and multilateral collaboration. The Ambassador also briefed the Ministry on Finland\u2019s intention to open a Trade Office in Lagos and highlighted her engagements across Nigeria.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Permanent Secretary reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to strengthening ties with Finland, supporting ongoing initiatives, and enhancing collaboration across all mutually beneficial sectors.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting ended on a warm and optimistic note, with both sides acknowledging that the relationship between Nigeria and Finland stands at a promising juncture, defined by shared aspirations, complementary strengths, and a mutual commitment to advancing peace, innovation, economic prosperity, and global cooperation. Partnership, and global cooperation.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria and Finland Deepen Strategic Partnership as Permanent Secretary Hosts Ambassador Selin for Comprehensive Diplomatic Engagement. &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, received Her Excellency, the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ms Sann&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-phd-received-her-excellency-the-ambassador-of-finland-to-nigeria-ms-sanna-selin\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, received Her Excellency, the Ambassador of Finland to Nigeria, Ms Sann&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252678,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mfa-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252677","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=252677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252680,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252677\/revisions\/252680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}