{"id":226848,"date":"2026-05-19T10:56:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:56:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226848"},"modified":"2026-05-19T10:56:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:56:20","slug":"rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?p=226848","title":{"rendered":"Rail Operating Licence: Is SWDC on the Right Track? By Remi Ladigbolu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When the South West Development Commission (SWDC) unveiled its \u201cOne Bloc Economy\u201d vision months ago, the public reaction was cautious optimism. The scepticism was understandable. Nigeria has seen too many intervention agencies begin with lofty promises only to disappear into waste, politics, abandoned projects, and endless bureaucracy&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/insideoyo.com\/rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the South West Development Commission (SWDC) unveiled its \u201cOne Bloc Economy\u201d vision months ago,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":226849,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-226848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu.jpg",1280,712,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-300x167.jpg",300,167,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-768x427.jpg",640,356,true],"large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-1024x570.jpg",640,356,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu.jpg",1280,712,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu.jpg",1280,712,false],"chromenews-featured":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-1024x570.jpg",1024,570,true],"chromenews-large":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-825x575.jpg",825,575,true],"chromenews-medium":["https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/226848-rail-operating-licence-is-swdc-on-the-right-track-by-remi-ladigbolu-590x410.jpg",590,410,true]},"author_info":{"display_name":"Jonathan Jeriah","author_link":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?author=1"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/?cat=38\" rel=\"category\">Politics<\/a>","tag_info":"Politics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226848","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=226848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/226849"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailytalks.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}