The Minister of works, David Umahi is inspecting road projects across Lagos and Ogun states ahead of a planned inauguration of completed road projects in May 2025.
For the Minister, President Bola Tinubu’s administration is making significant strides in infrastructure development, and the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project is a good example of the more economically driven project in Nigeria.
This is the minister of works’ routine check on federal highways and bridges in Lagos.
Starting with the Lagos-Badagry expressway project, the minister alongside other officials, inspected the road project, which is expected to boost economic activities in west africa.
According to him, the project has been reviewed, and the total cost now stands at 145 billion naira.
He also hinted at introducing concrete pavement on the second phase of the project.
The Lagos-Badagry Expressway project which was first awarded in October 2018 is part of 271 inherited road projects nationwide earmarked for inauguration in May.
Back to the Lagos-calabar coastal highway, the ministry noted that appreciable progress has been made in terms of construction and compensation.
It’s been one year since this project got started. And even though it was billed for 36 months, but it seems the government will be able to deliver this first section within 12 months.
But we slowed them down because nature slowed them down.
This project, which was flagged off by the President in May 2024, is expected to revolutionize transportation in Nigeria and boost the country’s socio-economic development.
The highway will stretch across nine states along Nigeria’s coastal shoreline, linking key highway corridors and providing a vital connection between the western, central, and eastern regions of the country.
While construction on section 3A and 3B which is in Cross River and Akwa Ibom will commence in the first week of March, the ministry of works will be meeting with contractors soon.
