{"id":68288,"date":"2025-06-17T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=68288"},"modified":"2025-06-17T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T11:25:17","slug":"470m-greater-abuja-water-supply-project-begins-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/17\/470m-greater-abuja-water-supply-project-begins-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"$470m Greater Abuja Water Supply Project Begins Operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Omoniyi David<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Minister, Nyesom Wike, could not hide his excitement on Monday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated the $470 million Greater Abuja Water Supply Project eight years after it was awarded.<\/p>\n<p>The inauguration, held in Abuja to mark President Tinubu\u2019s second year in office, signals the commencement of full operations for the long-delayed water project.<\/p>\n<p>Wike explained that the project was awarded in 2017 under a partnership with the African Development Initiative to cover Loops One, Two, Five, and Six of the capital\u2019s water supply system.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the Chinese government provided 85 percent of the funding, while the Federal Government and the FCT Administration contributed the remaining 15 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the project was completed within two years of the Tinubu administration, following a presidential directive to improve water access in the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough the project was awarded in 2017, your administration has completed it. Today, we are inaugurating it to improve water supply in the city,\u201d Wike said.<\/p>\n<p>The minister also recalled that in 2024, the FCT Administration signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with a Chinese company to extend water provision to satellite towns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say today that we have almost completed the procurement process to provide water to residents of Bwari, Kubwa, Karu, and other communities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, Mr. President, you are not only providing water to residents in the city; you are also bringing it to people in the satellite towns.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Omoniyi David &nbsp; Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Minister, Nyesom Wike, could not hide his excitement on Monday as President Bola Ahmed Tinubu inaugurated the $470 million Greater Abuja Water Supply Project eight years after it was awarded. The inauguration, held in Abuja to mark President Tinubu\u2019s second year in office, signals the commencement of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":68289,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68288","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\/68288","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=68288"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68290,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68288\/revisions\/68290"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}