{"id":61666,"date":"2025-02-21T20:47:09","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:47:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61666"},"modified":"2025-02-21T20:47:09","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T20:47:09","slug":"fg-dismisses-claims-of-lagos-abuja-bullet-train-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/21\/fg-dismisses-claims-of-lagos-abuja-bullet-train-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Dismisses Claims of Lagos-Abuja Bullet Train Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Federal Ministry of Transportation has debunked claims of approving a high-speed Lagos-Abuja bullet train project.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement from the ministry\u2019s management in Abuja, officials labeled the report\u2014widely circulated online\u2014as false and baseless.<\/p>\n<p>They clarified that although Geofocus Consortium proposed the project in 2016, the company has yet to meet key requirements, including proof of funding, for the project to proceed.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry emphasized that no approval has been granted by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission (ICRC), and any claims of completed feasibility studies or secured funding are unfounded.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry demanded an apology from Geofocus Consortium and urged Nigerians to disregard the misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>It also advised media outlets to verify facts before publication.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry reaffirmed its commitment to advancing President Bola Ahmed Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope agenda in the transportation sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ade Iyamoye\u00a0 Nigeria\u2019s Federal Ministry of Transportation has debunked claims of approving a high-speed Lagos-Abuja bullet train project. In a statement from the ministry\u2019s management in Abuja, officials labeled the report\u2014widely circulated online\u2014as false and baseless. They clarified that although Geofocus Consortium proposed the project in 2016, the company has yet to meet key [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61666","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\/61666","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=61666"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61668,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61666\/revisions\/61668"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}