{
  "id": 6990664,
  "title": "EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/12/exclusive-white-elephant-how-ebonyi-government-squandered-over",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-12T08:53:52.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Sahara Reporters",
    "slug": "sahara-reporters",
    "url": "https://saharareporters.com/2026/09/12/exclusive-white-elephant-how-ebonyi-government-squandered-over-n53billion-borrowed-funds"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "EXCLUSIVE: 'White Elephant': How Ebonyi Government Squandered Over N53billion Borrowed Funds On Abandoned Airport, Serving Only Umahi, Family While the former Umahi administration expended over N36 billion in borrowed funds to construct the edifice, structural defects on the concrete runway forced the new government to sink an additional N17.3 billion into major remedial overhauls on the runway…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}