{"id":244933,"date":"2026-09-19T21:00:06","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-meets-macron-for-private-dinner-in-paris\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T21:00:06","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T19:00:06","slug":"nigeria-tinubu-meets-macron-for-private-dinner-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinubu-meets-macron-for-private-dinner-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinubu Meets Macron for Private Dinner in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">According to Mr Onanuga, the dinner reflected the longstanding relationship between Nigeria and France.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">President Bola Tinubu met French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for a private dinner at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace in Paris.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">It is the latest in the series of meetings and engagements between Nigeria and France since Mr Tinubu assumed office in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">The president&#8217;s Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, disclosed the meeting in a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aonanuga1956\/status\/2100857973778112578?s=46\" rel=\"nofollow\">post<\/a><\/strong> on X on Friday. He also shared&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609180555.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>According to Mr Onanuga, the dinner reflected the longstanding relationship between Nigeria and France. President Bola Tinubu met French President Emmanuel Macron on Thursday for a private dinner at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace in Paris. It is the latest in the series of meetings and engagements between Nigeria and France since Mr Tinubu assumed office in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":244934,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690406:0ec5c95311dc088565171e10207ace4e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,10377,10577,6271,257,4687,393,15620,5990,254,8308],"class_list":["post-244933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dinner","tag-macron","tag-meets","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-paris","tag-private","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tinubu"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00690406:0ec5c95311dc088565171e10207ace4e:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244933","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=244933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}