{"id":207208,"date":"2025-09-15T11:21:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-will-open-up-south-west-corridors-for-economic-growth-umahi\/"},"modified":"2025-09-15T11:21:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:21:28","slug":"nigeria-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-will-open-up-south-west-corridors-for-economic-growth-umahi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-will-open-up-south-west-corridors-for-economic-growth-umahi\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway Will Open Up South West Corridors for Economic Growth &#8211; Umahi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has reiterated the federal government&#8217;s commitment to opening up the south west corridors for massive economic growth, saying the ongoing Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway holds the magic wand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Umahi highlighted ongoing work across multiple sections, including those in Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River. Over 30 dredgers are used for the coastal terrain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The minister made the assertion during inspection of the second section of the road at Kilometre 77,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509150118.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>Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi, has reiterated the federal government&#8217;s commitment to opening up the south west corridors for massive economic growth, saying the ongoing Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway holds the magic wand. Umahi highlighted ongoing work across multiple sections, including those in Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Akwa Ibom, and Cross River. Over 30 dredgers are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":207209,"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":[258,256,13691,8344,3576,6641,9419,51271,257,4687,393,5983,5069,254,12718,4375],"class_list":["post-207208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-coastal","tag-corridors","tag-growth","tag-highway","tag-lagoscalabar","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-open","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-umahi","tag-west"],"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\/207208","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=207208"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207208\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}