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“Let me state that this project is over 70 per cent done, and the contractor has not got funds up to 70 per cent.”<\/p>\n
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway construction will be completed in January 2026, the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi,<\/a><\/strong> has said.<\/p>\n Mr Umahi made the disclosure during an inspection tour of the highway on Wednesday.<\/p>\n “We came to review the project with the financial promoters – Dutch Bank and Development Bank of Southern Africa,” he said.<\/p>\n He said it was projected that 20km of the road (from…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> “Let me state that this project is over 70 per cent done, and the contractor has not got funds up to 70 per cent.” The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway construction will be completed in January 2026, the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has said. Mr Umahi made the disclosure during an inspection tour of the highway […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197322,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[249],"tags":[258,256,4334,7485,13691,16899,6144,8537,9419,10872,51271,257,4687,393,254,12718],"class_list":["post-197321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-announces","tag-challenge","tag-coastal","tag-completion","tag-date","tag-greatest","tag-highway","tag-identifies","tag-lagoscalabar","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umahi"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197321","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=197321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197321\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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