{"id":228376,"date":"2026-03-24T13:44:54","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubus-uk-visit-yielding-results-not-optics-olayinka-counters-chatham-house-report\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T13:44:54","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T11:44:54","slug":"nigeria-tinubus-uk-visit-yielding-results-not-optics-olayinka-counters-chatham-house-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubus-uk-visit-yielding-results-not-optics-olayinka-counters-chatham-house-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu&#8217;s UK Visit Yielding Results, Not Optics &#8211; Olayinka Counters Chatham House Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">A policy analyst, Tosin Olayinka, has defended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s foreign engagements, insisting that the March 2026 UK state visit has produced tangible economic benefits contrary to claims by Chatham House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">In a statement reposted by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga on his X platform, Olayinka criticised a commentary by Leena Koni Hoffmann, describing it as selective and lacking depth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">He argued that the claim that Tinubu&#8217;s high-profile diplomacy has yielded little for ordinary&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240311.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>A policy analyst, Tosin Olayinka, has defended President Bola Ahmed Tinubu&#8217;s foreign engagements, insisting that the March 2026 UK state visit has produced tangible economic benefits contrary to claims by Chatham House. In a statement reposted by presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga on his X platform, Olayinka criticised a commentary by Leena Koni Hoffmann, describing it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228377,"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":[258,256,20571,53114,5110,257,4687,393,33892,53990,5144,6407,254,34574,6250,12728],"class_list":["post-228376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chatham","tag-counters","tag-house","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-olayinka","tag-optics","tag-report","tag-results","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubus","tag-visit","tag-yielding"],"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\/228376","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=228376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228376\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}