{"id":237398,"date":"2026-06-25T17:45:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/nigeria-4-others-launch-new-corridor-authority-for-16bn-abidjan-lagos-highway\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T17:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T15:45:58","slug":"nigeria-4-others-launch-new-corridor-authority-for-16bn-abidjan-lagos-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ivory-coast\/nigeria-4-others-launch-new-corridor-authority-for-16bn-abidjan-lagos-highway\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria, 4 Others Launch New Corridor Authority for $16bn Abidjan &#8211; Lagos Highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"47\">Nigeria and four other West African countries, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin Republic, have formally launched the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Management Authority, a regional body established to oversee the development and future operation of the $16 billion coastal highway project linking major economic hubs across the region.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The authority will coordinate the management and operation of the planned 1,028-kilometre, six-lane expressway, which is expected to become one of West Africa&#8217;s most&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606250117.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>Nigeria and four other West African countries, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, Ghana, Togo, and Benin Republic, have formally launched the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Management Authority, a regional body established to oversee the development and future operation of the $16 billion coastal highway project linking major economic hubs across the region. The authority will coordinate the management and operation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":237399,"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":[54077,2554,258,256,9367,12298,6183,6555,9419,1218,2477,5741,257,4687,254],"class_list":["post-237398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ivory-coast","tag-16bn","tag-abidjan","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-corridor","tag-cote-divoire","tag-cote-divoire-news","tag-highway","tag-ivory-coast-news","tag-lagos","tag-launch","tag-news","tag-nigeria","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\/237398","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=237398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/237399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}