{"id":23814,"date":"2023-10-06T10:00:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/?p=23814"},"modified":"2023-10-06T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2023-10-06T10:00:28","slug":"nigeria-will-produce-steel-in-three-years-minister-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/nigeria-will-produce-steel-in-three-years-minister-assures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria will produce steel in three years, minister assures"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"739\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/steel-739x400.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-23815\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar-Audu, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to ensure the Ajaokuta Steel Company (ASC) starts production within the next three years.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He also disclosed plans to establish a Free Trade Zone (FTZ) in the Ajaokuta area to attract foreign direct investment and diversify the country&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During a visit to the Ajaokuta Steel Company Limited (ASCL), Abubakar-Audu emphasized the importance of restarting production at the steel complex. He added that President Bola Tinubu has shown a keen interest in the revival of the steel industry and appointed him as the pioneer minister for steel development.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Abubakar-Audu also noted that if the ASC becomes operational, it could create over 500,000 jobs, significantly impacting poverty reduction in Nigeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Minister of Steel Development, Shuaibu Abubakar-Audu, has reaffirmed the government&#8217;s commitment to ensure the Ajaokuta&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,6560],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23816,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23814\/revisions\/23816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aigmediapro.tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}