{"id":54772,"date":"2023-12-21T15:38:06","date_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=54772"},"modified":"2023-12-21T15:38:06","modified_gmt":"2023-12-21T15:38:06","slug":"nigeria-slashes-transport-fees-during-the-holidays-to-ease-some-of-the-pain-of-austerity-measures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2023\/12\/21\/nigeria-slashes-transport-fees-during-the-holidays-to-ease-some-of-the-pain-of-austerity-measures\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria slashes transport fees during the holidays to ease some of the pain of austerity measures"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-54773\" src=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nigerian-tavelling-300x200.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nigerian-tavelling-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nigerian-tavelling-360x240.jpeg 360w, https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nigerian-tavelling.jpeg 622w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">Nigeria\u2019s leader slashed the fees during the holiday season for several public transport routes in half and offered free train rides starting Thursday, hoping to ease \u2014 at least temporarily \u2014 some of the economic hardship caused by his government&#8217;s austerity measures.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/travel\/news\/nigeria-slashes-transport-fees-during-the-holidays-to-ease-some-of-the-pain-of-austerity-measures\/ar-AA1lQSfx?ocid=msedgntp&amp;pc=LCTS&amp;cvid=855d30274d1b4fe495458f386b7ad8a0&amp;ei=164\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-t=\"{&quot;n&quot;:&quot;blueLinks&quot;}\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Nigeria\u2019s leader slashed the fees during the holiday season for several public transport routes in half and offered free train rides starting&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":54773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-54772","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Nigerian-tavelling.jpeg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54774,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54772\/revisions\/54774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}