{"id":80678,"date":"2025-12-21T15:33:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=80678"},"modified":"2025-12-21T15:33:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-21T15:33:17","slug":"commuters-trapped-in-gridlock-on-lokoja-abuja-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/12\/21\/commuters-trapped-in-gridlock-on-lokoja-abuja-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Commuters Trapped in Gridlock on Lokoja-Abuja Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Onyeanya Immaculata<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of motorists have been stranded for hours in a severe traffic gridlock on the Lokoja-Abuja highway, just days to Christmas, disrupting travel plans for commuters.<\/p>\n<p>The congestion was worst around the Koton Karfe axis, where movement was almost at a standstill.<\/p>\n<p>While some commuters blamed the gridlock on two trucks that reportedly broke down on the highway, others attributed it to slow-paced road rehabilitation work in the area.<\/p>\n<p>As the situation worsened, several motorists diverted through dusty alternative routes in an attempt to bypass the blockage.<\/p>\n<p>Officials of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), and other security agencies have been deployed to the scene to control traffic and ease the congestion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Onyeanya Immaculata Hundreds of motorists have been stranded for hours in a severe traffic gridlock on the Lokoja-Abuja highway, just days to Christmas, disrupting travel plans for commuters. The congestion was worst around the Koton Karfe axis, where movement was almost at a standstill. While some commuters blamed the gridlock on two trucks that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":80679,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,1746],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-80678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-travel","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80678","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=80678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":80680,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80678\/revisions\/80680"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}