{"id":240979,"date":"2026-02-03T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/presidency-fires-back-at-adc-after-global-report-names-lagos-fastest-growing-tech-hub\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:50:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T14:50:00","slug":"presidency-fires-back-at-adc-after-global-report-names-lagos-fastest-growing-tech-hub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/presidency-fires-back-at-adc-after-global-report-names-lagos-fastest-growing-tech-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"Presidency Fires Back at ADC After Global Report Names Lagos Fastest-Growing Tech Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p data-start=\"146\" data-end=\"369\">The Presidency has responded sharply to opposition politicians, particularly the African Democratic Congress (ADC), following a global report that ranked Lagos as the world\u2019s fastest-growing emerging technology ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"371\" data-end=\"542\">Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, shared the news on his verified X account, taking a pointed swipe at the opposition.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"544\" data-end=\"732\">\u201cADC must not read this,\u201d he wrote, adding that \u201cdesperate politicians, always hunting for negative statistics, will be unhappy that Tinubu\u2019s Nigeria has earned global tech recognition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"734\" data-end=\"1022\">The ranking comes from Global Statistics\u2019 list of the top 20 fastest-growing emerging tech ecosystems worldwide. Lagos claimed the top spot, surpassing cities such as Istanbul (T\u00fcrkiye), Pune and Mumbai (India), and Belo Horizonte (Brazil), representing Asia, Africa, and South America.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1024\" data-end=\"1167\">Onanuga framed the accolade as a strong rebuttal to the opposition\u2019s \u201cpersistent negative narratives\u201d about Nigeria\u2019s economy and governance.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1169\" data-end=\"1282\">The ADC has consistently criticised President Bola Tinubu\u2019s administration, particularly over economic reforms.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1284\" data-end=\"1494\">This recognition shines a spotlight on Lagos\u2019 thriving startup ecosystem, innovation drive, and growing influence in the global digital economy\u2014offering a boost of positive news amid ongoing political debate.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has responded sharply to opposition politicians, particularly the African Democratic Congress (ADC), following a global report that ranked Lagos as the world\u2019s fastest-growing emerging technology ecosystem. Bayo Onanuga, Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, shared the news on his verified X account, taking a pointed swipe at the opposition. \u201cADC [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":240980,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5],"tags":[231,193,3126],"class_list":["post-240979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-adc","tag-lagos","tag-onanuga"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/onanuga.jpg.webp.webp","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}