{"id":252882,"date":"2026-02-15T12:53:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T12:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=252882"},"modified":"2026-02-17T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T12:58:05","slug":"vice-president-kashim-shettima-amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-at-the-closed-session-of-the-39th-ordinary-session-of-the-assembly-of-heads-of-state-and-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/vice-president-kashim-shettima-amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-at-the-closed-session-of-the-39th-ordinary-session-of-the-assembly-of-heads-of-state-and-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Kashim Shettima, Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, at the closed session of the 39th Ordinary Ses&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria has endorsed the proposed institutional reforms in the African Union, with a focus on peace and security governance, strengthening democratic institutions, and ensuring stronger cooperation with international financial institutions and the private sector.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">The country also aligned with proposed restructurings aimed at boosting domestic and regional resource mobilisation for affordable development financing and the adoption of a continental framework on reducing inequality, built on credible data, social protection, productive jobs, and inclusive industrial policies, among others.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Nigeria\u2019s position was presented by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, who is represented by Vice President Kashim Shettima, at the closed session of the 39th Ordinary Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria has endorsed the proposed institutional reforms in the African Union, with a focus on peace &hellip; <a title=\"Vice President Kashim Shettima, Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, at the closed session of the 39th Ordinary Ses&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/vice-president-kashim-shettima-amb-yusuf-m-tuggar-at-the-closed-session-of-the-39th-ordinary-session-of-the-assembly-of-heads-of-state-and-government\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vice President Kashim Shettima, Amb. Yusuf M. Tuggar, at the closed session of the 39th Ordinary Ses&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":252883,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252882","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\/252882","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=252882"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252882\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":252884,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252882\/revisions\/252884"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}