{"id":250409,"date":"2026-11-15T00:30:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-remarks-by-charge-daffaires-jimmy-mauldin-at-the-ustda-and-infragora-afridata-commemorative-signing-ceremony\/"},"modified":"2026-11-15T00:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-14T22:30:17","slug":"nigeria-remarks-by-charge-daffaires-jimmy-mauldin-at-the-ustda-and-infragora-afridata-commemorative-signing-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-remarks-by-charge-daffaires-jimmy-mauldin-at-the-ustda-and-infragora-afridata-commemorative-signing-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Remarks By Charg\u00e9 d&#8217;Affaires Jimmy Mauldin At the Ustda and Infragora Afridata Commemorative Signing Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"4\"><em>As prepared for Delivery<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">Good morning, everyone. Allow me to stand on established protocol. On behalf of the U.S. Mission in Nigeria, I&#8217;m glad to be here to celebrate this agreement between the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, and INFRAGORA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">People call Nigeria the giant of Africa, and anyone who has spent time here knows why. Nigerians are building technologies that are changing how people bank, shop, learn, and talk to each other across the continent. When USTDA puts money behind this&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202611130531.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>As prepared for Delivery Good morning, everyone. Allow me to stand on established protocol. On behalf of the U.S. Mission in Nigeria, I&#8217;m glad to be here to celebrate this agreement between the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, USTDA, and INFRAGORA. People call Nigeria the giant of Africa, and anyone who has spent time here [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":250410,"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":[258,256,55851,6358,5211,34190,12581,55850,14774,55849,257,4687,393,9469,4379,254,46231],"class_list":["post-250409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-afridata","tag-ceremony","tag-charge","tag-commemorative","tag-daffaires","tag-infragora","tag-jimmy","tag-mauldin","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-remarks","tag-signing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ustda"],"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\/250409","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=250409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/250410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}