{"id":218668,"date":"2025-12-31T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/nigeria-govt-chad-discuss-implementation-of-abidjan-lagos-highway-project\/"},"modified":"2025-12-31T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T13:24:53","slug":"nigeria-govt-chad-discuss-implementation-of-abidjan-lagos-highway-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/nigeria-govt-chad-discuss-implementation-of-abidjan-lagos-highway-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Govt, Chad Discuss Implementation of Abidjan-Lagos Highway Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"40\">The Minister of Works, David Umahi, recently held talks with a high-level delegation from the Republic of Chad, led by the Chadian Minister of Infrastructure and Road Maintenance, Mr. Amir Idriss Kourda, on the implementation of the Abidjan-Lagos highway project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The discussion, specifically, was on the Fluvio Lacustrine Connectivity Programme and a proposal for direct transportation link between Nigeria and Chad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The minister assured his Chadian counterpart of Nigeria&#8217;s commitment to &#8220;activating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512310020.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ivory Coast\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/\">C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire (Ivory Coast)<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works, David Umahi, recently held talks with a high-level delegation from the Republic of Chad, led by the Chadian Minister of Infrastructure and Road Maintenance, Mr. Amir Idriss Kourda, on the implementation of the Abidjan-Lagos highway project. The discussion, specifically, was on the Fluvio Lacustrine Connectivity Programme and a proposal for direct [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":218669,"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":[1087],"tags":[12297,258,256,4699,6183,6555,6686,4357,9419,7134,1218,257,4687,6504,254],"class_list":["post-218668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-abidjanlagos","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-chad","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-discuss","tag-govt","tag-highway","tag-implementation","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-project","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\/218668","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=218668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218668\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}