{"id":26696,"date":"2025-09-01T15:06:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:06:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=26696"},"modified":"2025-09-01T15:06:50","modified_gmt":"2025-09-01T15:06:50","slug":"tinubu-vows-equitable-development-points-to-infrastructure-as-national-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/?p=26696","title":{"rendered":"Tinubu Vows Equitable Development, Points to Infrastructure as National Assets"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to delivering on its promises to all Nigerians, emphasizing that his government\u2019s infrastructure projects are designed to serve the entire nation without regional bias.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a post on his verified X account early Monday, September 1, the President outlined key achievements under his Renewed Hope Agenda, framing recent transport, energy, and health initiatives as national rather than sectional gains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Among the projects highlighted were the Lagos\u2013Calabar Coastal Highway, the Sokoto\u2013Badagry Superhighway, the Port Harcourt\u2013Maiduguri rail line, and the Abuja\u2013Kaduna\u2013Kano expressway. Tinubu also pointed to the Trans-Saharan highway as evidence of his commitment to regional connectivity and improved quality of life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dI took an oath to serve all Nigerians, not a section,\u201d the President wrote. \u201dThat oath guides every bridge, road, rail, power, and health project we deliver.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He described the infrastructure drive as part of a broader effort to ensure equitable development: \u201dThese are not local trophies. They are our national assets.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additional milestones cited include the rehabilitation of health centers nationwide, approvals for light rail projects in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, and Ogun states, the revival of a 255MW power plant in Kaduna, and ongoing oil exploration in Bauchi and Gombe. The AKK gas pipeline was also noted as having crossed the River Niger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dEvery farmer who needs a road, every trader who needs power, every child who needs a school, every patient who needs care\u2026 this is who we are building for. This is the equity of Renewed Hope,&#8221; Tinubu stated. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The President further emphasized that over 250,000 jobs have been created under these initiatives, assuring that no Nigerian would be treated as second-class and no region left behind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201dTogether we will rise as one nation, one people, and one destiny,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has reaffirmed his administration\u2019s commitment to delivering on its promises to all Nigerians, emphasizing that his government\u2019s infrastructure projects are designed to serve the entire nation without regional bias. In a post on his verified X account early Monday, September 1, the President outlined key achievements under his Renewed Hope Agenda, framing recent transport, energy, and health initiatives as national rather than sectional gains. Among the projects highlighted were the Lagos\u2013Calabar Coastal Highway, the Sokoto\u2013Badagry Superhighway, the Port Harcourt\u2013Maiduguri rail line, and the Abuja\u2013Kaduna\u2013Kano expressway. Tinubu also pointed to the Trans-Saharan highway as evidence of his commitment to regional connectivity and improved quality of life. \u201dI took an oath to serve all Nigerians, not a section,\u201d the President wrote. \u201dThat oath guides every bridge, road, rail, power, and health project we deliver.\u201d He described the infrastructure drive as part of a broader effort to ensure equitable development: \u201dThese are not local trophies. They are our national assets.\u201d Additional milestones cited include the rehabilitation of health centers nationwide, approvals for light rail projects in Kano, Kaduna, Lagos, and Ogun states, the revival of a 255MW power plant in Kaduna, and ongoing oil exploration in Bauchi and Gombe. The AKK gas pipeline was also noted as having crossed the River Niger. \u201dEvery farmer who needs a road, every trader who needs power, every child who needs a school, every patient who needs care\u2026 this is who we are building for. This is the equity of Renewed Hope,&#8221; Tinubu stated. The President further emphasized that over 250,000 jobs have been created under these initiatives, assuring that no Nigerian would be treated as second-class and no region left behind. \u201dTogether we will rise as one nation, one people, and one destiny,\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26696"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26697,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26696\/revisions\/26697"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fctnewsgazette.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}