{"id":744,"date":"2018-05-17T09:17:36","date_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=744"},"modified":"2018-05-17T09:17:36","modified_gmt":"2018-05-17T09:17:36","slug":"fec-okays-995m-loan-for-abuja-makurdi-road-phase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/?p=744","title":{"rendered":"FEC okays $995m loan for Abuja-Makurdi road phase 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a loan request worth $995 million to be sourced from China\u2019s Exim Bank for the construction of phase II of Abuja \u2013 Keffi \u2013 Akwanga \u2013 Lafia \u2013 Makurdi Road.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, told State House corespondents after the council meeting that the 268.5 kilometre project consists of 16.0 kilometres-Lafia bye-pass and 251.7 kilometres stretch from Ninth mile through Otukpo to Makurdi.<\/p>\n<p>He said the second phase was awarded even though financing was not yet available as the award of the country was a prerequisite to access its loan from the bank. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved a loan request worth $995 million to be sourced from China\u2019s Exim Bank for the construction of phase II of Abuja \u2013 &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":745,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":746,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744\/revisions\/746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.quriusolutions.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}