{"id":253201,"date":"2026-05-06T18:48:38","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T18:48:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253201"},"modified":"2026-05-08T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T17:54:41","slug":"ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-ambassador-of-the-russian-federation-to-nigeria-his-excellency-andrey-podelyshev","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-ambassador-of-the-russian-federation-to-nigeria-his-excellency-andrey-podelyshev\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience,\u00a0the\u00a0Ambassador of the Russian Federation to &hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0 Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience, the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Nigeria, His Excellency, Andrey Podelyshev.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting discussed strengthening relations between both countries.\u00a0 Diplomatic relations between Nigeria and Russia, established in 1960, are long-standing, focusing on defense, energy, and education, and both countries officially celebrated 65 years of ties in November 2025. Nigeria\u00a0 has maintained a strong partnership with Russia, emphasizing\u00a0 security and defense cooperation, Education and science cooperation,\u00a0 Energy infrastructure, economic, military and technical collaboration. cooperation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0 Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience, the Ambassador of the &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience,\u00a0the\u00a0Ambassador of the Russian Federation to &hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-received-in-audience-the-ambassador-of-the-russian-federation-to-nigeria-his-excellency-andrey-podelyshev\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu received in audience,\u00a0the\u00a0Ambassador of the Russian Federation to &hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253204,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253201","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\/253201","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=253201"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253201\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253203,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253201\/revisions\/253203"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}