{"id":76946,"date":"2025-10-20T08:39:53","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=76946"},"modified":"2025-10-20T08:39:53","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T08:39:53","slug":"commuters-stranded-as-soldiers-block-abuja-keffi-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/10\/20\/commuters-stranded-as-soldiers-block-abuja-keffi-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters Stranded as Soldiers Block Abuja-Keffi Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu<\/p>\n<p>Thousands of commuters were stranded on Monday as soldiers mounted a roadblock on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway for a stop-and-search operation.<\/p>\n<p>The blockade, which began around 6:00 a.m. at the Kugbo axis, caused a massive gridlock stretching to Masaka in Nasarawa State.<\/p>\n<p>Many travelers heading to Abuja from Nyanya, Karu, Mararaba, and Masaka were forced to turn back after hours of waiting.<\/p>\n<p>The operation coincides with the planned #FreeNnamdiKanu protest in Abuja, sparking speculation that the military action was a security measure to forestall unrest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Patrick Idowu Thousands of commuters were stranded on Monday as soldiers mounted a roadblock on the Abuja-Keffi Expressway for a stop-and-search operation. The blockade, which began around 6:00 a.m. at the Kugbo axis, caused a massive gridlock stretching to Masaka in Nasarawa State. Many travelers heading to Abuja from Nyanya, Karu, Mararaba, and Masaka [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[182],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-76946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-defence-and-security","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76946","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76949,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76946\/revisions\/76949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}