{"id":71338,"date":"2025-07-24T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=71338"},"modified":"2025-07-24T05:35:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T05:35:53","slug":"tinubu-to-commission-abuja-city-walk-in-may-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/07\/24\/tinubu-to-commission-abuja-city-walk-in-may-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu to Commission Abuja City Walk in May 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Samuel Adeola<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Bola Tinubu is set to commission the first phase of the Abuja City Walk in May 2026, marking his third year in office, according to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.<\/p>\n<p>Wike disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during the signing of an agreement with MAG International Links Limited for the landmark project, inspired by Dubai\u2019s City Walk.<\/p>\n<p>He described it as the flagship development of Tinubu\u2019s Renewed Hope Agenda.<\/p>\n<p>The mixed-use urban centre will cover over 200 hectares in the Abuja Technology Village along Airport Road.<\/p>\n<p>It will house residential, commercial, retail, hospitality, medical, and institutional facilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are not giving out land for speculation,\u201d Wike warned. \u201cThis is a partnership based on results, not empty promises.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He directed that foundation work must begin by August 2025, insisting only serious investors with clear timelines would be entertained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve seen what you\u2019ve done in Dubai. Now we want to see bulldozers and concrete, not excuses,\u201d Wike said, noting that he would personally chair the project monitoring committee to prevent bureaucratic delays.<\/p>\n<p>MAG International\u2019s Executive Director, Dr. Kassim Gidado, hailed the project as a symbol of public-private synergy, adding that investors from the UAE and other countries have already committed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will be our Canary Wharf. City Walk Abuja will transform not just the skyline, but the narrative of this city,\u201d Gidado said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Samuel Adeola President Bola Tinubu is set to commission the first phase of the Abuja City Walk in May 2026, marking his third year in office, according to the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike. Wike disclosed this on Wednesday in Abuja during the signing of an agreement with MAG International Links Limited for the landmark [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":71339,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-71338","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\/71338","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=71338"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71338\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71340,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71338\/revisions\/71340"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}