{"id":74220,"date":"2025-08-26T08:35:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74220"},"modified":"2025-08-26T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T08:35:12","slug":"ferma-frsc-move-to-ease-gridlock-on-nyanya-mararaba-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/26\/ferma-frsc-move-to-ease-gridlock-on-nyanya-mararaba-road\/","title":{"rendered":"FERMA, FRSC Move to Ease Gridlock on Nyanya-Mararaba Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Olokuta Rofiat<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), have unveiled plans to address flooding and traffic congestion along the Nyanya\u2013Mararaba corridor in the Federal Capital Territory.<\/p>\n<p>During a visit to FERMA\u2019s headquarters in Abuja, the FCT Sector Commander of the FRSC, CC Felix N. Theman, highlighted the worsening gridlock caused by poor drainage, reckless motorcycle riding, and motorists driving against traffic, especially during evening rush hours.<\/p>\n<p>In response, FERMA\u2019s Director of Information and Public Relations, Mrs. Maryam M. Sanusi, said the agency will prioritize drainage improvements and the desilting of blocked inlets.<\/p>\n<p>She noted that the intervention would cover the stretch from Sharp Corner to the building materials market and the Mararaba bridge, where erosion and flooding have severely damaged the road shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>Both agencies pledged to collaborate to restore order, enhance road safety, and ease the daily commute for thousands of residents who rely on the route.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Olokuta Rofiat &nbsp; The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA), and the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), have unveiled plans to address flooding and traffic congestion along the Nyanya\u2013Mararaba corridor in the Federal Capital Territory. During a visit to FERMA\u2019s headquarters in Abuja, the FCT Sector Commander of the FRSC, CC Felix N. Theman, highlighted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74220","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\/74220","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=74220"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74222,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74220\/revisions\/74222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}