{"id":203491,"date":"2026-01-07T22:48:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203491"},"modified":"2026-01-07T22:48:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T22:48:44","slug":"lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-gets-1-2-billion-uae-backed-loan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=203491","title":{"rendered":"Lagos \u2013 Calabar\u00a0coastal\u00a0highway\u00a0gets $1.2\u00a0billion UAE-backed\u00a0loan\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government\u00a0has secured about $1.2 billion in financing from the United Arab Emirates to advance construction of a key segment of the Lagos\u2013Calabar Coastal Highway. The Presidency\u00a0made this\u00a0announcement\u00a0in a statement\u00a0on Friday, according to\u00a0Bloomberg. The funding will be applied to a 56-kilometre section of the coastal freeway&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/nairametrics.com\/2025\/12\/26\/lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-gets-1-2-billion-uae-backed-loan\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government\u00a0has secured about $1.2 billion in financing from the United Arab Emirates to<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uae"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","chromenews-featured":"","chromenews-large":"","chromenews-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=32\" rel=\"category\">United Arab Emirates<\/a>","tag_info":"United Arab Emirates","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=203491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203491\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=203491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=203491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=203491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}