FG Engages With Stakeholders on 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway

The federal government will commence a stakeholders’ engagement today on the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway and thereafter the 1,000km Sokoto-Badagry superhighway as well as the 477km Calabar-South-east-North Central-Apo-Abuja way.

A statement yesterday by Uchenna Orji, spokesman to the Minister of Works, David Umahi, explained that this followed the approval of President Bola Tinubu, for the commencement of key national road infrastructure network.

The statement noted that the road infrastructure would traverse the various trade and agricultural corridors of Nigeria and in keeping with the current administration’s strategic economic recovery plans.

Umahi is expected to hold a session of the stakeholders’ engagement in Akwa Ibom and Cross River states respectively, the statement added.

“In Akwa Ibom, he will present and discuss the proposed alignment for the construction of Sections 3B and 4 of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project passing through the state.

“In Cross River state, he will present and discuss section 3A of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and 92km segment of the Calabar-South East-North Central-Apo-Abuja Superhighway passing through the state,” it said.

Stakeholders expected at the event include: Governors of concerned states, Senators and House of Representatives Committees on Works, ministers of line ministries, royal fathers and technocrats.

Also expected to attend are: Officials of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and major telecommunication service providers as well as other relevant stakeholders and the media. The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, according to the statement, would be the guest of honour.

“The three renewed hope legacy road infrastructure projects when completed shall have historic national interconnectivity that will criss-cross the major transportation routes of Northern and Southern States of Nigeria.

“They include the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway, a 1,000-kilometer highway connecting Sokoto in Northern Nigeria to Badagry in Western Nigeria, passing through seven states and connecting the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway at Ahmadu Bello way Lagos.

“Also, the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700-kilometre coastal highway connecting from Lagos State to Cross River State through eight states and the Calabar-South East-North Central-Apo Abuja 477km superhighway connecting from Calabar to Ebonyi, Benue, Kogi, Nasarawa States and ending at Apo in Abuja,” it stated.