{"id":242878,"date":"2026-09-01T20:28:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-arise-news-praises-leadership-over-choice-of-obaigbena-rabiu-as-persons-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T20:28:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T18:28:57","slug":"nigeria-arise-news-praises-leadership-over-choice-of-obaigbena-rabiu-as-persons-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-arise-news-praises-leadership-over-choice-of-obaigbena-rabiu-as-persons-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Arise News Praises Leadership Over Choice of Obaigbena, Rabiu As Persons of the Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Arise News has praised LEADERSHIP Newspaper for its choice of Prince Nduka Obaigbena, founder of THISDAY and Arise News, and chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, as its Persons of the Year 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The recognition was highlighted during Arise News&#8217; Morning Show programme in the &#8220;Good News&#8221; segment, which described the honour as a &#8220;double celebration&#8221; for two Nigerians who have made significant contributions to different sectors of the economy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Arise News said Obaigbena was honoured for nearly&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609010538.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow 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>Arise News has praised LEADERSHIP Newspaper for its choice of Prince Nduka Obaigbena, founder of THISDAY and Arise News, and chairman of BUA Group, Abdul Samad Rabiu, as its Persons of the Year 2026. The recognition was highlighted during Arise News&#8217; Morning Show programme in the &#8220;Good News&#8221; segment, which described the honour as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":242879,"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":[258,256,33438,9650,8771,257,4687,393,47298,10183,7691,49846,254,6537],"class_list":["post-242878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-arise","tag-choice","tag-leadership","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obaigbena","tag-persons","tag-praises","tag-rabiu","tag-south-africa-today","tag-year"],"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\/242878","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=242878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242878\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}