{"id":191367,"date":"2025-02-14T02:45:37","date_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:45:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-senate-urges-fg-to-accommodate-north-east-in-new-superhighway-projects\/"},"modified":"2025-02-14T02:45:37","modified_gmt":"2025-02-14T00:45:37","slug":"nigeria-senate-urges-fg-to-accommodate-north-east-in-new-superhighway-projects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-senate-urges-fg-to-accommodate-north-east-in-new-superhighway-projects\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Senate Urges FG to Accommodate North-East in New Superhighway Projects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The lawmakers noted that the North-east remains the only zone not connected to the superhighway project under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The Senate on Thursday asked the federal government to include North-eastern states in the newly approved superhighway project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The upper chamber also urged the government to approve the rehabilitation of all dilapidated roads nationwide.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">The resolutions followed a motion sponsored by Gombe Central Senator Danjuma Goje during the plenary session on&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202502130680.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>The lawmakers noted that the North-east remains the only zone not connected to the superhighway project under President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s administration. The Senate on Thursday asked the federal government to include North-eastern states in the newly approved superhighway project. The upper chamber also urged the government to approve the rehabilitation of all dilapidated roads nationwide. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":191368,"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":[27617,258,256,257,4687,393,12646,6039,8115,254,13999,6810],"class_list":["post-191367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-accommodate","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-northeast","tag-projects","tag-senate","tag-south-africa-today","tag-superhighway","tag-urges"],"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\/191367","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=191367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}