{"id":252694,"date":"2025-12-15T15:03:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-15T15:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252694"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:43:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:43:26","slug":"nigeria-gambia-reaffirm-strategic-partnership-as-foreign-ministers-meet-in-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/nigeria-gambia-reaffirm-strategic-partnership-as-foreign-ministers-meet-in-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria-Gambia Reaffirm Strategic Partnership as Foreign Ministers Meet in Abuja."},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria and The Gambia on Monday, 15 December 2025, reaffirmed their long-standing bilateral relations and commitment to deeper cooperation across diplomacy, security, justice reform, and capacity building, following an audience granted by Nigeria\u2019s Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, His Excellency, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar, OON to his Gambian counterpart, Honourable Sering Modou Njie and his delegation at his office in Abuja.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">During the meeting, the Gambian Foreign Minister conveyed warm fraternal greetings from President Adama Barrow and expressed profound appreciation for Nigeria\u2019s consistent support for The Gambia, particularly during its post-2017 political transition. He acknowledged Nigeria\u2019s pivotal role in stabilising the country at a critical moment in its democratic evolution, noting that Nigeria\u2019s leadership and solidarity were instrumental in sustaining peace, security, and institutional continuity.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria and The Gambia on Monday, 15 December 2025, reaffirmed their long-standing bilateral relations and commitment &hellip; <a title=\"Nigeria-Gambia Reaffirm Strategic Partnership as Foreign Ministers Meet in Abuja.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/nigeria-gambia-reaffirm-strategic-partnership-as-foreign-ministers-meet-in-abuja\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nigeria-Gambia Reaffirm Strategic Partnership as Foreign Ministers Meet in Abuja.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252695,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252694","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\/252694","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=252694"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252694\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252696,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252694\/revisions\/252696"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}