{"id":223717,"date":"2026-02-14T00:16:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:16:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-abujas-style-and-substance-at-the-18th-annual-leadership-awards-conference\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T00:16:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T22:16:55","slug":"nigeria-abujas-style-and-substance-at-the-18th-annual-leadership-awards-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-abujas-style-and-substance-at-the-18th-annual-leadership-awards-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Abuja&#8217;s Style and Substance At the 18th Annual Leadership Awards &#038; Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">While the 18th Annual Leadership Awards and Conference was billed as a serious summit for policymakers, captains of industry, and public servants, Abuja&#8217;s Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre proved that leadership and glamour can coexist beautifully.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"66\">From the moment the red carpet rolled out, it was clear that Abuja&#8217;s elite had arrived to make a statement. Power dressing was the order of the day: tailored suits, flowing gowns, statement jewelry, and colors bold enough to rival the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602130369.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the 18th Annual Leadership Awards and Conference was billed as a serious summit for policymakers, captains of industry, and public servants, Abuja&#8217;s Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre proved that leadership and glamour can coexist beautifully. From the moment the red carpet rolled out, it was clear that Abuja&#8217;s elite had arrived to make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":223718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[14158,23435,258,256,5854,6526,5739,8771,257,4687,393,254,16980,40088],"class_list":["post-223717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-18th","tag-abujas","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-annual","tag-awards","tag-conference","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-style","tag-substance"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}