{"id":212883,"date":"2025-11-08T01:23:48","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fec-approves-n43bn-for-lagos-ibadan-highway-others\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T01:23:48","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T23:23:48","slug":"nigeria-fec-approves-n43bn-for-lagos-ibadan-highway-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-fec-approves-n43bn-for-lagos-ibadan-highway-others\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: FEC Approves N43bn for Lagos-Ibadan Highway, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">The Federal Executive Council, FEC, on Thursday, announced the approval of over N43 billion for the completion of Phase II, Section II of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as part of a series of new and revised infrastructure projects under the Ministry of Works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Council also reviewed progress on the East-West Road, which was inherited by the Tinubu administration at a cost of N156 billion for two carriageways, three flyovers, and two bridges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, disclosed this to&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202511070480.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 Executive Council, FEC, on Thursday, announced the approval of over N43 billion for the completion of Phase II, Section II of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, as part of a series of new and revised infrastructure projects under the Ministry of Works. The Council also reviewed progress on the East-West Road, which was inherited by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":212884,"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":[258,256,8326,8079,9419,8793,38839,257,4687,393,254],"class_list":["post-212883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-approves","tag-fec","tag-highway","tag-lagosibadan","tag-n43bn","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/212883","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=212883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}