{"id":253626,"date":"2026-07-09T11:38:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253626"},"modified":"2026-07-09T11:38:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T11:38:52","slug":"honourable-minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-seeks-partnership-with-retired-ambassadors-to-strengthen-nigerias-foreign-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/honourable-minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-seeks-partnership-with-retired-ambassadors-to-strengthen-nigerias-foreign-service\/","title":{"rendered":"HONOURABLE MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS SEEKS PARTNERSHIP WITH RETIRED AMBASSADORS TO STREN&hellip;"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Press-Release-No-2026-129.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Press Release No 2026 129<br\/><\/a>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253629\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-11-300x217.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-11-300x217.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-11-768x557.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-11.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>\u00a0 \u00a0 <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-253627\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-13-300x187.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"347\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-13-300x187.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-13-768x478.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-13.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 347px) 100vw, 347px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253628,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hmos-news","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253626","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=253626"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253631,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253626\/revisions\/253631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}