{"id":176007,"date":"2024-07-06T08:34:13","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-roads-now-designed-on-concrete-umahi\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T08:34:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T06:34:13","slug":"nigerian-roads-now-designed-on-concrete-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigerian-roads-now-designed-on-concrete-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian Roads Now Designed On Concrete &#8211; Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">David Umahi says 70 per cent of federal highways are being designed on concrete to elongate their lifespans<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">The Nigerian government says it is transitioning from asphalt to concrete in the construction of highways across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">It also revealed that 70 per cent of federal highways are being designed on concrete to elongate their lifespans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Minister of Works, David Umahi, stated this on Thursday when he led a delegation of federal lawmakers and top government officials on a tour of a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050525.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Nigeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/nigeria\/\">Nigeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Umahi says 70 per cent of federal highways are being designed on concrete to elongate their lifespans The Nigerian government says it is transitioning from asphalt to concrete in the construction of highways across the country. It also revealed that 70 per cent of federal highways are being designed on concrete to elongate their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":176008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,18426,24216,257,393,482,9013,254,12718],"class_list":["post-176007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-concrete","tag-designed","tag-news","tag-nigeria-news","tag-nigerian","tag-roads","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umahi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}