{"id":73671,"date":"2025-08-20T06:24:57","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:24:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=73671"},"modified":"2025-08-20T06:24:57","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T06:24:57","slug":"fg-approves-n90bn-for-abuja-water-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/20\/fg-approves-n90bn-for-abuja-water-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"FG Approves N90bn for Abuja Water Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Huldah Shado<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has approved N90 billion for new water supply projects in Bwari and Karu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to boost access to clean water for residents.<\/p>\n<p>FCT Minister Nyesom Wike announced this on Tuesday during the commissioning of the rehabilitated Phase 2 water treatment plant at the Lower Usuma Dam in Ushafa, Bwari Area Council.<\/p>\n<p>The minister disclosed that the new projects would be flagged off this week, with the Bwari project starting on Wednesday and the Karu project on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Wike added that President Bola Tinubu also approved additional water projects for satellite towns, reaffirming government\u2019s commitment to improving basic infrastructure across the FCT.<\/p>\n<p>The N50 billion Lower Usuma rehabilitation, awarded in 2022, has now been completed and is expected to significantly enhance water supply to communities in the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Huldah Shado The Federal Government has approved N90 billion for new water supply projects in Bwari and Karu, Federal Capital Territory (FCT), to boost access to clean water for residents. FCT Minister Nyesom Wike announced this on Tuesday during the commissioning of the rehabilitated Phase 2 water treatment plant at the Lower Usuma Dam [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":73672,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177,172],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-73671","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\/73671","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=73671"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73673,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73671\/revisions\/73673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73672"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73671"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73671"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73671"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}