{"id":60466,"date":"2025-02-04T10:45:29","date_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:45:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60466"},"modified":"2025-02-04T10:45:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-04T10:45:29","slug":"fg-begins-tolling-on-abuja-keffi-akwanga-makurdi-expressway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/04\/fg-begins-tolling-on-abuja-keffi-akwanga-makurdi-expressway\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Begins Tolling on Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi Expressway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government will commence toll collection on the 227.2km Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi Expressway, with the official launch set for Tuesday, February 4, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, will officiate the flag-off at the Garaku Toll Station (KM 32 on the Keffi-Akwanga section).<\/p>\n<p>The tolling initiative is part of the Highways Development and Management Initiative (HDMI) Phase II under the Value Added Concession (VAC), scheme.<\/p>\n<p>The expressway will have four toll stations, raising concerns among road users and transporters about potential increases in transportation costs.<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Works has invited the public to follow the event live on its official X handle (@FMWNIG), as well as on NTA and Arise TV, at 11:00 AM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo\u00a0 The Federal Government will commence toll collection on the 227.2km Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Makurdi Expressway, with the official launch set for Tuesday, February 4, 2025. Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, will officiate the flag-off at the Garaku Toll Station (KM 32 on the Keffi-Akwanga section). The tolling initiative is part of the Highways Development [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466","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\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60468,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60466\/revisions\/60468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}