{"id":72138,"date":"2025-08-05T15:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=72138"},"modified":"2025-08-05T15:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-05T15:15:11","slug":"isaac-fayose-blames-govt-as-n105m-amala-spot-shuts-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/05\/isaac-fayose-blames-govt-as-n105m-amala-spot-shuts-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Isaac Fayose Blames Govt as N105m Amala Spot Shuts Down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Isaac Fayose, younger brother of ex-Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose, has blamed the Nigerian government for the collapse of his N105 million Amala restaurant in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>In a viral video, the entrepreneur said multiple levies, harsh policies, and zero support from authorities led to the downfall of the once-thriving business.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy N105 million Amala restaurant in Abuja is gone. I lost everything. The government killed it,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Fayose decried the lack of relief during tough times, including the COVID-19 pandemic and recent economic crisis. He also cited poor infrastructure, insecurity, and over-taxation as major challenges.<\/p>\n<p>He urged the government to support small businesses, warning that more closures loom without urgent reforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat Isaac Fayose, younger brother of ex-Ekiti Governor Ayodele Fayose, has blamed the Nigerian government for the collapse of his N105 million Amala restaurant in Abuja. In a viral video, the entrepreneur said multiple levies, harsh policies, and zero support from authorities led to the downfall of the once-thriving business. \u201cMy N105 million [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":72139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72138","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\/72138","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=72138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72140,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72138\/revisions\/72140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/72139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}