{"id":11240,"date":"2023-04-11T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/?p=11240"},"modified":"2023-04-11T11:14:41","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T11:14:41","slug":"i-had-a-fabulous-time-here-british-high-commissioner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/2023\/04\/11\/i-had-a-fabulous-time-here-british-high-commissioner\/","title":{"rendered":"I Had A Fabulous Time Here &#8211; British High Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Her Excellency Catriona Wendy Laing, says she\u2019s fascinated by Nigeria, particularly the music, dance, culture, and she\u2019s had \u201ca fabulous time here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She spoke Wednesday during a farewell visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at State House, Abuja, after four-and-a half years tour of duty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m sad to be leaving,\u201d said the High Commissioner. \u201cNigeria is so much fun, I had a fabulous time here, and I\u2019ll be back. I love the dance, the music, the culture. It\u2019s been good to experience Nigeria. I\u2019ve been to over 20 States, and I\u2019ve told my successor to also do the same. I\u2019ll be back, and still travel wider.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She congratulated President Buhari for very successful 8 years in office, saying he had done very well to hold the country together.<\/p>\n<div>The President said the United Kingdom was second home for many Nigerians, and relations between the two countries will continue to wax strong.<\/div>\n<p>\u201cIn fact, some wealthy Nigerians don\u2019t feel complete till they\u2019ve had a home in the UK,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Buhari said he looked forward to retirement in Daura, Katsina State, after handing over on May 29, reiterating: \u201cI\u2019ll be as far away from Abuja as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He lauded UK for cooperation on many fronts, particularly in the rebuilding of the North East, hitherto ravaged by insurgency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Outgoing British High Commissioner to Nigeria, Her Excellency Catriona Wendy Laing, says she\u2019s fascinated by Nigeria, particularly the music, dance, culture, and she\u2019s had \u201ca fabulous time here.\u201d She spoke Wednesday during a farewell visit to President Muhammadu Buhari at State House, Abuja, after four-and-a half years tour of duty. \u201cI\u2019m sad to be leaving,\u201d [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[346,308],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-leisure"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/techandbiz.com.ng\/tab-backup\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}