{"id":229131,"date":"2026-03-31T14:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinapa-project-how-obasanjo-quantity-surveyor-saved-cross-river-%e2%82%a63bn-duke\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T14:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T12:00:09","slug":"nigeria-tinapa-project-how-obasanjo-quantity-surveyor-saved-cross-river-%e2%82%a63bn-duke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/nigeria\/nigeria-tinapa-project-how-obasanjo-quantity-surveyor-saved-cross-river-%e2%82%a63bn-duke\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: Tinapa Project &#8211; How Obasanjo, Quantity Surveyor Saved Cross River \u20a63bn &#8211; &#8211; Duke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">Abuja \u2014 Former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, has revealed how the intervention of a Quantity Surveyor and former President Olusegun Obasanjo helped the state save \u20a63 billion during the construction of the Tinapa Resort project.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"31\">Duke made the disclosure while delivering a goodwill message at the unveiling of the national secretariat of the Nigerian Institute of Quantity Surveyors, renamed &#8220;QS J. Segun Ajanlekoko House,&#8221; in Abuja.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"42\">He explained that a construction firm initially quoted&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603310304.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>Abuja \u2014 Former Cross River State Governor, Donald Duke, has revealed how the intervention of a Quantity Surveyor and former President Olusegun Obasanjo helped the state save \u20a63 billion during the construction of the Tinapa Resort project. Duke made the disclosure while delivering a goodwill message at the unveiling of the national secretariat of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":229132,"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":[54051,258,256,8816,10020,257,4687,393,8335,6504,23890,7263,22724,254,47930,54050],"class_list":["post-229131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria","tag-3bn","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cross","tag-duke","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-nigeria-news","tag-obasanjo","tag-project","tag-quantity","tag-river","tag-saved","tag-south-africa-today","tag-surveyor","tag-tinapa"],"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\/229131","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=229131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}