{"id":8005,"date":"2025-07-10T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsdemo.website\/?p=8005"},"modified":"2025-07-10T13:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-10T13:00:00","slug":"government-secures-747m-loan-for-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/?p=8005","title":{"rendered":"Government secures $747m loan for Lagos\u2013Calabar coastal highway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria obtained a $747 million syndicated facility led by Deutsche Bank to finance the first 47.5 km of the planned 700 km Lagos\u2013Calabar coastal highway. Officials say the eight-year project aims to strengthen logistics, tourism and regional trade. Supporters tout the loan as the largest of its kind for a Nigerian road project, while critics urge transparent procurement and environmental safeguards along the corridor.<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: <a href='https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nigeria-secures-747-million-deutsche-bank-led-syndicated-loan-coastal-highway-2025-07-10\/' rel='nofollow'>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/africa\/nigeria-secures-747-million-deutsche-bank-led-syndicated-loan-coastal-highway-2025-07-10\/<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nigeria obtained a $747 million syndicated facility led by Deutsche Bank to finance the first 47.5 km of the planned 700 km Lagos\u2013Calabar coastal highway. Officials say the eight-year project aims to strengthen logistics, tourism and regional trade. Supporters tout the loan as the largest of its kind for a Nigerian road project, while critics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9005,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[39,40,42,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-8005","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-infrastructure","8":"tag-coastal-highway","9":"tag-deutsche-bank","10":"tag-public-finance","11":"tag-transport"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/datelineafro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}