{"id":14370,"date":"2024-01-15T08:14:54","date_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=14370"},"modified":"2024-01-15T08:14:54","modified_gmt":"2024-01-15T08:14:54","slug":"umahi-abuja-kaduna-kano-highway-to-be-completed-in-24-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/01\/15\/umahi-abuja-kaduna-kano-highway-to-be-completed-in-24-months\/","title":{"rendered":"Umahi: Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway to be Completed in 24 Months"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"flex-1 overflow-hidden\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-zlurl-79elbk h-full\">\n<div class=\"react-scroll-to-bottom--css-zlurl-1n7m0yu\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-col pb-9 text-sm\">\n<div class=\"w-full text-token-text-primary\" data-testid=\"conversation-turn-37\">\n<div class=\"px-4 py-2 justify-center text-base md:gap-6 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-1 text-base mx-auto gap-3 md:px-5 lg:px-1 xl:px-5 md:max-w-3xl lg:max-w-[40rem] xl:max-w-[48rem] group final-completion\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-full flex-col lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)] agent-turn\">\n<div class=\"flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col max-w-full\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] text-message flex flex-col items-start gap-3 whitespace-pre-wrap break-words [.text-message+&amp;]:mt-5 overflow-x-auto\" data-message-author-role=\"assistant\" data-message-id=\"2ebcc50c-a88d-461e-a97d-bb716e7c1d8e\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert dark\">\n<p>Minister of Works, David Umahi, announced that the entire Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway will be finished within 24 months. During an inspection of the Abuja-Kaduna section, Umahi, accompanied by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Economy Wale Edun, cited an agreement with the contractor, Julius Berger Construction Company, for the revised timeline.<\/p>\n<p>The initial 36-month completion target, set by the Buhari government in 2018, faced delays due to funding constraints. Umahi assured the public of the government&#8217;s commitment to overcoming challenges and ensuring timely completion, mentioning that Julius Berger agreed to complete 15 kilometers daily under the new agreement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Works, David Umahi, announced that the entire Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway will be finished within 24 months. During an inspection of the Abuja-Kaduna section, Umahi, accompanied by Minister of Finance and Coordinating Economy Wale Edun, cited an agreement with the contractor, Julius Berger Construction Company, for the revised timeline. The initial 36-month completion target, set [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":10596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14370"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14418,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14370\/revisions\/14418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}