{"id":60766,"date":"2025-02-07T20:58:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:58:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60766"},"modified":"2025-02-07T20:58:07","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T20:58:07","slug":"picng-program-director-advocates-improved-funding-for-ferma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/07\/picng-program-director-advocates-improved-funding-for-ferma\/","title":{"rendered":"PiCNG Program Director Advocates Improved Funding for FERMA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Alexis Uchendu\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, Program Director of PiCNG, delivered a lecture on &#8220;Improving Funding for FERMA&#8221; at a one-day retreat for the board and management of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), in Abuja on Friday, February 7, 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60770\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0064-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0064-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0064-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0064-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0064.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60767\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0065-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0065-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0065-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0065-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0065.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60768\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0063-300x166.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"166\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0063-300x166.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0063-1024x567.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0063-768x425.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0063.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60769\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0058-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0058-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0058-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0058-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA0058.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The retreat, themed &#8220;Delivering the Agency&#8217;s Mandate Aligned with the Renewed Hope Agenda,&#8221; focused on enhancing FERMA\u2019s operational efficiency and aligning its initiatives with national development goals.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60771\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00651-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00651-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00651-1024x637.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00651-768x478.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00651.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-60772\" src=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00601-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00601-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00601-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00601-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/IMG-20250207-WA00601.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Alexis Uchendu\u00a0 Engr. Michael Oluwagbemi, Program Director of PiCNG, delivered a lecture on &#8220;Improving Funding for FERMA&#8221; at a one-day retreat for the board and management of the Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), in Abuja on Friday, February 7, 2025. The retreat, themed &#8220;Delivering the Agency&#8217;s Mandate Aligned with the Renewed Hope Agenda,&#8221; focused [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":60773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-60766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60766","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60774,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60766\/revisions\/60774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}