{"id":253205,"date":"2026-05-08T16:02:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T16:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253205"},"modified":"2026-05-08T18:03:06","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T18:03:06","slug":"ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-held-a-meeting-with-the-high-commissioner-of-india-to-nigeria-his-excellency-abhishek-singh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-held-a-meeting-with-the-high-commissioner-of-india-to-nigeria-his-excellency-abhishek-singh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, held a meeting with the High Commissioner of India to Nigeria, His Exc&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0 Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, PhD, has reaffirmed Nigeria\u2019s commitment to strengthening bilateral and multilateral cooperation with the Republic of India ahead of the forthcoming BRICS Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting and the India-Africa Forum Summit scheduled to hold in New Delhi in May 2026.<\/p>\n<p>The Permanent Secretary stated this during a meeting with the High Commissioner of India to Nigeria, His Excellency Abhishek Singh, at the Ministry\u2019s Headquarters in Abuja. During the meeting, the Indian High Commissioner briefed the Permanent Secretary on preparations for the BRICS Foreign Ministers\u2019 Meeting slated for 14\u201315 May 2026 at the Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, as well as the India-Africa Forum Summit expected to convene African leaders and senior officials later in the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs,\u00a0 Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, PhD, has reaffirmed &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, held a meeting with the High Commissioner of India to Nigeria, His Exc&hellip;\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-dunoma-umar-ahmed-held-a-meeting-with-the-high-commissioner-of-india-to-nigeria-his-excellency-abhishek-singh\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Dunoma Umar Ahmed, held a meeting with the High Commissioner of India to Nigeria, His Exc&hellip;<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mfa-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253205","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=253205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253208,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253205\/revisions\/253208"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}