{"id":253749,"date":"2026-07-16T23:35:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T23:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253749"},"modified":"2026-07-17T14:18:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T14:18:30","slug":"ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-attends-the-eurafrican-forum-2026-in-lisbon-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-attends-the-eurafrican-forum-2026-in-lisbon-portugal\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, attends the EurAfrican Forum 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, attends the EurAfrican Forum 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal, and holds bilateral engagement with the Minister of State and Foreign Affairs of Portugal, Paulo Rangel. Several issues, ranging from Education, the welfare of Nigerians in Portugal, the military, and Energy Cooperation between the Federal Republic of Nigeria and Portugal, were the major highlights of the bilateral engagement between the two Ministers.<\/p>\n<div class=\"yj6qo\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253754\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image2-18.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253752\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image0-37.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253753\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image1-27.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-253750\" src=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6-800x533.jpeg 800w, https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/image3-6.jpeg 1080w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honourable Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, attends the EurAfrican Forum 2026 in Lisbon, &hellip; <a title=\"Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, attends the EurAfrican Forum 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal.\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/ambassador-bianca-odumegwu-ojukwu-attends-the-eurafrican-forum-2026-in-lisbon-portugal\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambassador Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu, attends the EurAfrican Forum 2026 in Lisbon, Portugal.<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253751,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253749","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\/253749","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=253749"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253756,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253749\/revisions\/253756"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}