{"id":205227,"date":"2025-08-22T10:18:33","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-federal-govt-threatens-to-terminate-road-projects-in-kogi-over-delay\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T10:18:33","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T08:18:33","slug":"nigeria-federal-govt-threatens-to-terminate-road-projects-in-kogi-over-delay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-federal-govt-threatens-to-terminate-road-projects-in-kogi-over-delay\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Federal Govt Threatens to Terminate Road Projects in Kogi Over Delay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The federal government has issued a 30-day notice of termination to contractors handling the rehabilitation of Lokoja- Shintaku &#8211; Dekina &#8211; Anyigba Road and the reconstruction of Okene &#8211; Ajaokuta &#8211; Itobe dual carriageway in Kogi State over delay by the contractors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, disclosed this on Wednesday after a meeting with the contractors at his office in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"57\">A statement by the Special Adviser on Media to the Minister, Barr Orji Uchenna Orji, said Engr Umahi reached a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202508220076.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 federal government has issued a 30-day notice of termination to contractors handling the rehabilitation of Lokoja- Shintaku &#8211; Dekina &#8211; Anyigba Road and the reconstruction of Okene &#8211; Ajaokuta &#8211; Itobe dual carriageway in Kogi State over delay by the contractors. Minister of Works, Engr. David Umahi, disclosed this on Wednesday after a meeting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":205228,"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":[258,256,8036,8731,4357,10662,257,4687,393,6039,7414,254,20072,10413],"class_list":["post-205227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-delay","tag-federal","tag-govt","tag-kogi","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-projects","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today","tag-terminate","tag-threatens"],"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\/205227","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=205227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}