{"id":65926,"date":"2025-05-18T01:49:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:49:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=65926"},"modified":"2025-05-18T01:49:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T01:49:16","slug":"fcta-extends-bus-terminal-project-to-bwari-gwagwalada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/05\/18\/fcta-extends-bus-terminal-project-to-bwari-gwagwalada\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Extends Bus Terminal Project to Bwari, Gwagwalada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adewunmi Oluwaseun\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has announced plans by the FCT Administration to construct new bus terminals in Bwari and Gwagwalada area councils, expanding public transport infrastructure to more satellite towns.<\/p>\n<p>Wike made the disclosure on Saturday while inspecting the dualisation of the Ushafa to War College and Check Point Road in Bwari, as well as the Abuja International Conference Centre.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the move is part of efforts to enhance security, ease commuting and ensure inclusive development across the territory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have agreed to build one bus terminal in Gwagwalada and another in Bwari,\u201d Wike said. \u201cThis will enable people to board taxis or buses safely to major terminals in the city without the fear of \u2018one chance\u2019 criminals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the ongoing transport infrastructure projects in Mabushi and Kugbo are ready for commissioning, while the Central Area terminal is nearing completion.<\/p>\n<p>Wike warned residents against boarding roadside vehicles once the terminals become operational, stressing that government has provided safe alternatives.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is expected to boost confidence in public transport and improve mobility across the FCT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adewunmi Oluwaseun\u00a0 Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has announced plans by the FCT Administration to construct new bus terminals in Bwari and Gwagwalada area councils, expanding public transport infrastructure to more satellite towns. Wike made the disclosure on Saturday while inspecting the dualisation of the Ushafa to War College and Check [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":65927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-65926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","category-news","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65926","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=65926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65928,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65926\/revisions\/65928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}