{"id":204536,"date":"2025-08-12T21:56:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:56:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-motorists-seek-fgs-action-after-collapsed-taraba-bridge-claims-lives\/"},"modified":"2025-08-12T21:56:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-12T19:56:49","slug":"nigeria-motorists-seek-fgs-action-after-collapsed-taraba-bridge-claims-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-motorists-seek-fgs-action-after-collapsed-taraba-bridge-claims-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Motorists Seek FG&#8217;s Action After Collapsed Taraba Bridge Claims Lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\"><em>Motorists in Taraba State have expressed growing fear over rising water levels on River Namnai, where the collapse of a key bridge has forced commuters to rely on engine boats &#8212; a situation that has already claimed lives and property.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Namnai Bridge, linking Jalingo and Wukari, collapsed a year ago. Of all the affected federal roads at the time, it remains the only bridge yet to be reconstructed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The collapse has subjected hundreds of road users to hardship, as they are now ferried across the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508120437.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>Motorists in Taraba State have expressed growing fear over rising water levels on River Namnai, where the collapse of a key bridge has forced commuters to rely on engine boats &#8212; a situation that has already claimed lives and property. The Namnai Bridge, linking Jalingo and Wukari, collapsed a year ago. Of all the affected [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":204537,"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":[6394,258,256,11058,8117,11057,21049,8485,9709,257,4687,393,7745,254,18106],"class_list":["post-204536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-action","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bridge","tag-claims","tag-collapsed","tag-fgs","tag-lives","tag-motorists","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-seek","tag-south-africa-today","tag-taraba"],"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\/204536","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=204536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}