{"id":253088,"date":"2026-04-05T13:12:03","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T13:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253088"},"modified":"2026-04-07T13:30:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T13:30:25","slug":"bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-newly-appointed-saudi-arabian-ambassador-to-nigeria-his-excellency-yousef-bin-mohammed-al-balawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-newly-appointed-saudi-arabian-ambassador-to-nigeria-his-excellency-yousef-bin-mohammed-al-balawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience the newly appointed Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nig&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Odumegwu-Ojukwu Receives Saudi Envoy As Both Countries Seek Deeper Bilateral Relations.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience the newly appointed Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nigeria, His Excellency Yousef Bin Mohammed Al-Balawi.<\/p>\n<p>Deliberations during the meeting emphasized enhancing cooperation across sectors, especially in Fintech, agriculture, energy, aviation and the economy. Both countries expressed a shared commitment to strengthening bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Odumegwu-Ojukwu Receives Saudi Envoy As Both Countries Seek Deeper &hellip; <a title=\"Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience the newly appointed Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nig&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-newly-appointed-saudi-arabian-ambassador-to-nigeria-his-excellency-yousef-bin-mohammed-al-balawi\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Amb. Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience the newly appointed Saudi Arabian Ambassador to Nig&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253089,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmos-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253088","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=253088"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253091,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253088\/revisions\/253091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}