{"id":253895,"date":"2026-07-25T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/?p=253895"},"modified":"2026-07-27T21:02:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T21:02:21","slug":"minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-describes-demography-as-nigerias-foreign-policy-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/minister-of-state-for-foreign-affairs-describes-demography-as-nigerias-foreign-policy-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"MINISTER OF STATE FOR FOREIGN AFFAIRS DESCRIBES DEMOGRAPHY AS NIGERIA\u2019S FOREIGN POLICY POWERHOUSE."},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Press-Release-No-2026-169.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Press Release No 2026 169<br\/><\/a>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":253889,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253895","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\/253895","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=253895"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":253898,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253895\/revisions\/253898"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foreignaffairs.gov.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}