{"id":225073,"date":"2026-02-25T12:41:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-enugu-takes-the-spotlight-as-mbah-declares-2nd-tech-festival-open\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T12:41:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T10:41:00","slug":"nigeria-enugu-takes-the-spotlight-as-mbah-declares-2nd-tech-festival-open","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-enugu-takes-the-spotlight-as-mbah-declares-2nd-tech-festival-open\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Enugu Takes the Spotlight As Mbah Declares 2nd Tech Festival Open"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;The world has crossed a line. What we are witnessing in our lifetime is nothing short of an economic renaissance powered by technology,&#8221; says Governor Mbah.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Governor Peter Mbah of <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.moj.en.gov.ng\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enugu State<\/a><\/strong> says technology and innovation remain at the heart of Enugu&#8217;s transformation under his administration, urging youths to explore the abundant opportunities in both.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Mr Mbah, who spoke at the opening of the second edition of Enugu Tech Festival at the International Conference Centre, Enugu, on Tuesday, said&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202602250335.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>&#8220;The world has crossed a line. What we are witnessing in our lifetime is nothing short of an economic renaissance powered by technology,&#8221; says Governor Mbah. Governor Peter Mbah of Enugu State says technology and innovation remain at the heart of Enugu&#8217;s transformation under his administration, urging youths to explore the abundant opportunities in both. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":225074,"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":[7577,258,256,7030,12385,7632,45335,257,4687,393,5983,254,5124,5056,8437],"class_list":["post-225073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-2nd","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-declares","tag-enugu","tag-festival","tag-mbah","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-open","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spotlight","tag-takes","tag-tech"],"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\/225073","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=225073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}