{"id":69585,"date":"2025-07-03T12:26:26","date_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:26:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=69585"},"modified":"2025-07-03T12:26:26","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T12:26:26","slug":"tinubu-centre-generates-n650m-in-three-weeks-wike-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/03\/tinubu-centre-generates-n650m-in-three-weeks-wike-reveals\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Centre Generates N650m in Three Weeks, Wike Reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Patrick Idowu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has defended the N39 billion renovation of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, saying the facility has already generated N650 million in just three weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking during a media chat in Abuja, Wike dismissed public criticism of the project, arguing that the revenue surge justifies the investment.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the centre, which previously generated only N50 million annually, has seen a dramatic increase in income since its commissioning.<\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu recently inaugurated the upgraded centre, an event that sparked mixed reactions across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has defended the N39 billion renovation of the Bola Ahmed Tinubu International Conference Centre, saying the facility has already generated N650 million in just three weeks. Speaking during a media chat in Abuja, Wike dismissed public criticism of the project, arguing that the revenue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":69586,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[59,1660],"class_list":["post-69585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-featured","tag-nyesom-wike"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69585","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69587,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69585\/revisions\/69587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}