{"id":21857,"date":"2024-12-06T17:21:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-06T16:21:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/?p=21857"},"modified":"2025-06-17T17:38:28","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T16:38:28","slug":"plac-interns-meet-european-union-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/plac-interns-meet-european-union-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"PLAC Interns Meet European Union Ambassador"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>On <strong>Friday, December 6, 2024<\/strong>, interns from the <strong>PLAC Legislative Internship Programme 2024<\/strong> paid a courtesy visit to the <strong>European Union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS<\/strong>, <strong>H.E. Zissimos Vergos<\/strong>, at the EU Delegation Office in Abuja.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21860\" srcset=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A8977-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The visit was led by <strong>PLAC\u2019s Programme Manager, Nkiru Uzodi<\/strong>, and served as a unique opportunity for the interns to engage directly with international partners committed to supporting <strong>democratic governance and youth empowerment<\/strong> in Nigeria.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21859\" srcset=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9003-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The EU Ambassador, alongside <strong>Olawumi Laolu<\/strong>, welcomed and addressed the interns, sharing words of encouragement, insights on EU support for Nigeria\u2019s democracy, and the importance of youth participation in nation-building.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, December 6, 2024, interns from the PLAC Legislative Internship Programme 2024 paid a courtesy visit to the European Union Ambassador to Nigeria and ECOWAS, H.E. 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The visit was led by PLAC\u2019s Programme Manager, Nkiru Uzodi, and served as a unique opportunity for the interns [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":21858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[357,356,355,352],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"Clarkye Clark","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/clarkye\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/2F8A9080-300x200.jpeg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">Uncategorized<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">democracy<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">ecowas<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">European Union Ambassador<\/a>","<a href=\"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/category\/uncategorized\/\" class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">PLAC<\/a>"],"unlinked":["<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">democracy<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">ecowas<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">European Union Ambassador<\/span>","<span class=\"advgb-post-tax-term\">PLAC<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 1 year ago","modified":"Updated 10 months ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on December 6, 2024","modified":"Updated on June 17, 2025"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on December 6, 2024 5:21 pm","modified":"Updated on June 17, 2025 5:38 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21857"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21862,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21857\/revisions\/21862"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}