{"id":62969,"date":"2025-03-18T15:33:20","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=62969"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:33:20","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T15:33:20","slug":"reps-issue-ultimatum-over-abuja-kaduna-highway-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/03\/18\/reps-issue-ultimatum-over-abuja-kaduna-highway-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Reps Issue Ultimatum Over Abuja-Kaduna Highway Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The House of Representatives Committee on Works has warned Infiouest Construction Company to meet the deadline for the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano highway project or face sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>During an oversight visit, Committee Chairman Akin Alabi emphasized the road\u2019s national importance and demanded quality delivery within the 14-month completion period.<\/p>\n<p>The project was originally awarded to Julius Berger but revoked in 2024 due to non-performance.<\/p>\n<p>Alabi insisted that the new contractor must prove its competence, adding that lawmakers would monitor progress every two weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Infiouest\u2019s Project Manager, Robert Turner, assured full commitment to the timeline, acknowledging the road\u2019s significance.<\/p>\n<p>The committee also inspected the Abuja-Lokoja road, where JRB Construction is repairing 22 kilometers of failed sections. JRB\u2019s project manager attributed past failures to poor materials but promised improved quality.<\/p>\n<p>Federal Controller of Works, Usman Yakubu, confirmed that both projects are on track, assuring the public of value for money.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo The House of Representatives Committee on Works has warned Infiouest Construction Company to meet the deadline for the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano highway project or face sanctions. During an oversight visit, Committee Chairman Akin Alabi emphasized the road\u2019s national importance and demanded quality delivery within the 14-month completion period. The project was originally awarded to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":62970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-62969","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\/62969","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=62969"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62969\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62971,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62969\/revisions\/62971"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}