{"id":24574,"date":"2024-03-29T20:02:40","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/port-harcourt-aba-rail-line-nigerian-government-announces-new-date-to-begin-operation\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T20:02:40","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T20:02:40","slug":"port-harcourt-aba-rail-line-nigerian-government-announces-new-date-to-begin-operation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/port-harcourt-aba-rail-line-nigerian-government-announces-new-date-to-begin-operation\/","title":{"rendered":"Port Harcourt-Aba rail line: Nigerian government announces new date to begin operation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Federal Government has announced a new date for the start of operation for the Port Harcourt-Aba rail line.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Transportation Senator Saidu Alkali made the announcement on Friday when he spoke with journalists in Port Harcourt after examining the reconstruction of the Port Harcourt-Aba Railway track.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said that the train services along the route initially planned for March 2024 will now be rescheduled to April due to technical challenges.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the second time I have come to Port Harcourt for the inspection of the rail line since I assumed office as the Minister of Transportation,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOf course, they gave us March but I\u2019m sure while they were doing the inspection, you witnessed when I was trying to extract a commitment from the consultant and the contractor because the last time I was here they said March, but because of some exigencies and technicalities of the work, they may extend it to April.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Port Harcourt-Aba rail line: Nigerian government announces new date to begin operation<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has announced a new date for the start of operation for the Port Harcourt-Aba rail line. Minister&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24575,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,13113,13114],"tags":[6085,13115,13116,180,914,8228,11616],"class_list":["post-24574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-port-harcourt-aba-rail-line","category-saidu-alkali","tag-alkali","tag-harcourt-aba","tag-line","tag-news","tag-port","tag-rail","tag-saidu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}