{"id":76497,"date":"2025-10-11T19:56:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76497"},"modified":"2025-10-11T19:56:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T19:56:04","slug":"uba-sani-umahi-move-to-fast-track-abuja-kaduna-expressway-completion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/11\/uba-sani-umahi-move-to-fast-track-abuja-kaduna-expressway-completion\/","title":{"rendered":"Uba Sani, Umahi Move to Fast-Track Abuja-Kaduna Expressway Completion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, and Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, have renewed efforts to expedite completion of the Abuja-Jere-Kaduna section of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting in Abuja, both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to resolving challenges delaying the strategic road project.<\/p>\n<p>Governor Sani described the expressway as a \u201cnational artery\u201d vital for trade, connectivity, and economic growth, pledging Kaduna State\u2019s support to clear all bottlenecks.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi commended Sani\u2019s collaboration and assured that contractors have been directed to operate double shifts to speed up work.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that reinforced concrete pavement is being adopted for durability and sustainability.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting forms part of Governor Sani\u2019s wider consultations with federal stakeholders to accelerate key infrastructure projects in Kaduna State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Ebere Immaculata &nbsp; Kaduna State Governor, Senator Uba Sani, and Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, have renewed efforts to expedite completion of the Abuja-Jere-Kaduna section of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Expressway. At a meeting in Abuja, both leaders reaffirmed their commitment to resolving challenges delaying the strategic road project. Governor Sani described the expressway [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":76498,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1756,172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76497","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=76497"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76497\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76499,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76497\/revisions\/76499"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}