{"id":121649,"date":"2024-06-16T11:12:03","date_gmt":"2024-06-16T10:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/uncategorized\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project"},"modified":"2024-06-16T13:27:40","modified_gmt":"2024-06-16T12:27:40","slug":"nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project","title":{"rendered":"Nigerian govt withholds payment of compensations for Lagos-Calabar project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. <\/strong><\/span>The Federal Government has withheld payment of compensation to property owners on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project due to alterations to the plan.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, disclosed this when he inspected ongoing works on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and other road projects on the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Dangote Tax Credit Route, and Eleko on Saturday in Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said the government had reduced the entire corridor from Phase Two, Section Two of the coastal route to effective pavements of 55km, including the 10 train tracks.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the government had released about N10 billion so far in compensation.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi said: \u201cWe are going to withhold compensation payment from Kilometer Seven because we have re-routed some of the sections, like the white sand beach.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know the indigenes have been praying very well. I think God has answered their prayers because we have also compressed the corridor to 55 effective pavements with 10 train tracks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reduced the 10 tracks from 55 to 20, and we are taking it back also towards the beginning of this project.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The minister said payment of the compensation would continue after the review.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor Section Two, we are going to have brand new enumerators so that they will also give us their opinions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is going to be very, very fast.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saved all those cables and saved the whole community of Okunaja, by not only re-routing but re-routing entirely through a swamp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI hear that some people are calling to protest that we are re-routing to the swamp, that we should go to the gazetted and then destroy the cables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wonder what kind of people we are dealing with. It is very funny.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that they will see reasons to be very reasonable,\u201d he stated.Balanced, fearless journalism driven by data comes at huge financial costs.<\/p>\n<p>As a media platform, we hold leadership accountable and will not trade the right to press freedom and free speech for a piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>If you like what we do, and are ready to uphold solutions journalism, kindly donate to the Ripples Nigeria cause.<\/p>\n<p>Your support would help to ensure that citizens and institutions continue to have free access to credible and reliable information for societal development.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Nigeria Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Nigeria. The Federal Government has withheld payment of compensation to property owners on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project due to alterations to the plan. The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, disclosed this when he inspected ongoing works on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and other road projects on the Lekki Free Trade Zone, Dangote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":121647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15],"tags":[13781,254,227,13782],"class_list":["post-121649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","tag-lagos-calabar-project","tag-nigeria","tag-nigerian-govt","tag-payment-of-compensations"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Nigerian govt withholds payment of compensations for Lagos-Calabar project - Nigeria<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The Federal Government has withheld payment of compensation to property owners on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway proj ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Nigerian govt withholds payment of compensations for Lagos-Calabar project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Federal Government has withheld payment of compensation to property owners on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway proj ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Nigeria\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-06-16T10:12:03+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-06-16T12:27:40+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1718524360.157401.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"720\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"385\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Nigerian govt withholds payment of compensations for Lagos-Calabar project\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-06-16T10:12:03+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-06-16T12:27:40+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\"},\"wordCount\":393,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/sites\/3\/2024\/06\/sm_1718524360.157401.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Lagos-Calabar project\",\"Nigeria\",\"Nigerian Govt\",\"payment of compensations\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/nigeria\/economy\/nigerian-govt-withholds-payment-of-compensations-for-lagos-calabar-project\",\"name\":\"Nigerian govt withholds payment of compensations for Lagos-Calabar project - 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