{"id":228393,"date":"2026-03-24T14:11:53","date_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:11:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-big-push-projects-target-local-contractors\/"},"modified":"2026-03-24T14:11:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-24T12:11:53","slug":"ghana-big-push-projects-target-local-contractors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-big-push-projects-target-local-contractors\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: &#8216;Big Push&#8217; Projects Target Local Contractors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">The Urban Roads Department, an agency under the Ministry of Roads and Highways, has awarded contracts covering a total of 150 kilometres of roads as part of the government&#8217;s efforts to improve the quality of roads in towns and cities across the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Out of the 16 contracts awarded across five regions under the &#8220;Big Push&#8221; programme, 14, valued at over GH\u00a26 billion, are being executed by Ghanaian contractors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The local firms undertaking some of the projects include Murisco Ltd, Kojo Job Company&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603240284.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Roads Department, an agency under the Ministry of Roads and Highways, has awarded contracts covering a total of 150 kilometres of roads as part of the government&#8217;s efforts to improve the quality of roads in towns and cities across the country. Out of the 16 contracts awarded across five regions under the &#8220;Big [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":228394,"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":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8559,2141,4508,4509,7823,257,6039,6354,254,7594],"class_list":["post-228393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-big","tag-contractors","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-projects","tag-push","tag-south-africa-today","tag-target"],"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\/228393","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=228393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/228394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}