{"id":67965,"date":"2025-06-13T10:14:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67965"},"modified":"2025-06-13T10:14:34","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T10:14:34","slug":"fcta-announces-temporary-road-closure-for-tinubus-inauguration-of-apo-wassa-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/13\/fcta-announces-temporary-road-closure-for-tinubus-inauguration-of-apo-wassa-road\/","title":{"rendered":"FCTA Announces Temporary Road Closure for Tinubu\u2019s Inauguration of Apo-Wassa Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Capital Territory Administration has announced a temporary road closure on Friday, June 14, 2025, to facilitate the inauguration of a newly completed section of the Outer Southern Expressway by President Bola Tinubu.<\/p>\n<p>According to the FCTA, the 15-kilometre left-hand service lane of the expressway, stretching from Ring Road I Junction to Wassa Junction, will be officially inaugurated at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Vehicular movement along the route from Apo Mechanics Village to Wassa will be restricted between 11:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>Motorists are advised to use alternative routes during the closure. Traffic enforcement officers will be deployed to manage flow and reduce inconvenience to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The FCTA has appealed for cooperation from the public and assured that the closure is temporary.<\/p>\n<p>Traders, mechanics, and shop owners in Apo Mechanics Village have voluntarily agreed to suspend business activities for the day to welcome the president and attend the ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Normal business operations are expected to resume on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Apo-Wassa Road project is one of 17 key infrastructural projects lined up to mark President Tinubu\u2019s second year in office.<\/p>\n<p>It is the third to be completed and handed over, reflecting the administration\u2019s ongoing commitment to infrastructure development in the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke The Federal Capital Territory Administration has announced a temporary road closure on Friday, June 14, 2025, to facilitate the inauguration of a newly completed section of the Outer Southern Expressway by President Bola Tinubu. According to the FCTA, the 15-kilometre left-hand service lane of the expressway, stretching from Ring Road I Junction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67966,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67967,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67965\/revisions\/67967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}