{"id":252879,"date":"2026-02-15T11:20:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T11:20:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252879"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:51:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:51:10","slug":"ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-held-talks-with-baroness-jenny-chapman-minister-for-international-development-and-africa-of-the-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-held-talks-with-baroness-jenny-chapman-minister-for-international-development-and-africa-of-the-united-kingdom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar held talks with Baroness Jenny Chapman, Minister for International D&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">On the margins of the ongoing 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, the Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar held talks with Baroness Jenny Chapman, Minister for International Development and Africa of the United Kingdom.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Discussions focused on advancing preparations for the forthcoming State Visit of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to the United Kingdom and identifying new opportunities to deepen Nigeria \/ United Kingdom Relations.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The meeting also exchanged views on regional priorities, reaffirming shared commitment by both countries to sustained dialogue and stronger collaboration in support of security, good governance, and economic growth.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the margins of the ongoing 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar held talks with Baroness Jenny Chapman, Minister for International D&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-yusuf-maitama-tuggar-held-talks-with-baroness-jenny-chapman-minister-for-international-development-and-africa-of-the-united-kingdom\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Yusuf Maitama Tuggar held talks with Baroness Jenny Chapman, Minister for International D&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252880,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252879","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\/252879","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=252879"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252879\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252881,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252879\/revisions\/252881"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}