{"id":64461,"date":"2025-04-18T23:21:26","date_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=64461"},"modified":"2025-04-18T23:21:26","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T23:21:26","slug":"fg-eyes-cheaper-official-travel-with-bisonfly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/04\/18\/fg-eyes-cheaper-official-travel-with-bisonfly\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Eyes Cheaper Official Travel with BisonFly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a move to tighten public spending and drive financial discipline, the Federal Government has introduced the BisonFly Project \u2014 a digital platform set to transform official air travel across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies.<\/p>\n<p>The project was officially unveiled in Abuja by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, who described it as a smart step toward accountability and efficiency in government operations.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry\u2019s statement released on X, BisonFly was developed by the Efficiency Unit to centralize and simplify flight bookings, while securing bulk discounts through a unified system.<\/p>\n<p>Once fully operational in the coming months, the platform is expected to significantly lower air travel costs by streamlining procedures and eliminating wasteful practices.<\/p>\n<p>It will also allow the government to negotiate better deals with airlines and track travel data more effectively.<\/p>\n<p>The launch of BisonFly signals a shift toward digital governance and fiscal prudence, aligning with the administration\u2019s broader economic reform agenda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo In a move to tighten public spending and drive financial discipline, the Federal Government has introduced the BisonFly Project \u2014 a digital platform set to transform official air travel across Ministries, Departments, and Agencies. The project was officially unveiled in Abuja by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":64462,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-64461","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\/64461","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=64461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64463,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64461\/revisions\/64463"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}