{"id":64379,"date":"2025-04-17T04:19:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64379"},"modified":"2025-04-17T04:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T04:19:00","slug":"tinubu-launches-465km-super-highway-across-five-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/17\/tinubu-launches-465km-super-highway-across-five-states\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Launches 465km Super Highway Across Five States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has flagged off the construction of a landmark 465 kilometre super highway that will stretch from Calabar through Ebonyi, Benue and Nasarawa to Abuja, igniting fresh hopes for economic growth and regional integration.<\/p>\n<p>The groundbreaking ceremony held on Wednesday at Amuro Primary School in Afikpo Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, where Governor Francis Nwifuru stood in for the President.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Nwifuru described the project as a bold stride towards opening up landlocked Ebonyi to major markets and opportunities across the country, calling it a lifeline for trade, agriculture and education.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is more than a road. It is a doorway to prosperity and a clear signal that development is taking a front seat in this administration,\u201d the governor declared.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Works David Umahi, who led the technical briefing, assured Nigerians of a swift and high quality delivery, lauding Tinubu\u2019s leadership for being inclusive and infrastructure driven.<\/p>\n<p>The event also drew political leaders and stakeholders from across the region, many of whom praised the super highway as a turning point in federal attention to the Southeast and the broader North Central axis.<\/p>\n<p>They pledged unflinching support for the administration and expressed optimism that the project will fast track national development and social cohesion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has flagged off the construction of a landmark 465 kilometre super highway that will stretch from Calabar through Ebonyi, Benue and Nasarawa to Abuja, igniting fresh hopes for economic growth and regional integration. The groundbreaking ceremony held on Wednesday at Amuro Primary School in Afikpo Local Government Area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64380,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64379","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\/64379","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=64379"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64381,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64379\/revisions\/64381"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}