{"id":74464,"date":"2025-08-28T15:41:56","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:41:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=74464"},"modified":"2025-08-28T15:41:56","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T15:41:56","slug":"keffi-residents-urge-fg-to-establish-abuja-keffi-train-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/08\/28\/keffi-residents-urge-fg-to-establish-abuja-keffi-train-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Keffi Residents Urge FG to Establish Abuja-Keffi Train Service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Njoku Chijioke<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, have appealed to the Federal Government to establish a train service linking the town to Abuja.<\/p>\n<p>They argued that such a service, modeled after the Abuja-Kaduna rail line, would ease pressure on the busy Abuja-Keffi highway, reduce gridlock, and provide safer travel for commuters.<\/p>\n<p>Many residents noted that with thousands of civil servants living in border communities, a train service would cut travel time, improve security, and boost productivity.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf the train service is created, it will reduce the suffering people endure daily on this highway,\u201d one commuter said. \u201cWith a train, there is more security. We really need it here and hope government will take action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Njoku Chijioke &nbsp; Residents of Keffi Local Government Area, Nasarawa State, have appealed to the Federal Government to establish a train service linking the town to Abuja. They argued that such a service, modeled after the Abuja-Kaduna rail line, would ease pressure on the busy Abuja-Keffi highway, reduce gridlock, and provide safer travel for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":74465,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74464","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\/74464","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=74464"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":74466,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74464\/revisions\/74466"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/74465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}