{"id":93730,"date":"2026-09-04T10:41:23","date_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93730"},"modified":"2026-09-04T10:41:23","modified_gmt":"2026-09-04T10:41:23","slug":"alhaji-abubakar-alhaji-nigerian-finance-minister-who-was-a-deft-negotiator-with-the-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/alhaji-abubakar-alhaji-nigerian-finance-minister-who-was-a-deft-negotiator-with-the-west\/","title":{"rendered":"Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, Nigerian finance minister who was a deft negotiator with the West"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2byotN.img?w=768&h=479&m=6&x=408&y=181&s=223&d=223\" alt=\"Alhaji: he was granted the title Sardauna of Sokoto \u2013 \u2018sardauna\u2019 meaning \u2018the brave one with the sword\u2019 - METRO DAILY NIGERIA\" width=\"635\" height=\"396\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, who has died aged 87, was one of Nigeria\u2019s most influential and distinguished public servants, serving as Minister of Finance in the early 1990s, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/money\/other\/alhaji-abubakar-alhaji-nigerian-finance-minister-who-was-a-deft-negotiator-with-the-west\/ar-AA2bxypZ?ocid=winp2fptaskbar&cvid=6e1baaf54e0a4bb9cea74fb6c1684b4e&ei=11\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji, who has died aged 87, was one of Nigeria\u2019s most influential and distinguished public servants, serving as Minister of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93731,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[206],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Alhaji-Alhaji.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93730"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93730\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93732,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93730\/revisions\/93732"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}