FG Signs Eight Strategic Road Projects Nationwide

The Federal Government has signed agreements for eight major road projects across the country, with the Minister of Works, David Umahi, saying investors are already showing interest in refunding and tolling sections of President Bola Tinubu’s legacy highway projects.

The agreements, signed between Wednesday and Thursday at the Federal Ministry of Works headquarters in Mabushi, Abuja, cover four flagship legacy highways and four additional strategic road projects across several states.

The legacy projects include Section II of the Calabar-Ebonyi-Abuja Superhighway traversing Ebonyi, Benue, Kogi and Nasarawa states; Section IV of the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway in Oyo State; Section V of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway in Akwa Ibom State; and Section II of the Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi-Gombe-Biu-Maiduguri Road from Gombe to Biu.

Other projects include the reconstruction of the Mando–Birnin Gwari Road in Kaduna State, dualisation of the Ibadan–Ijebu Ode Road spanning Oyo and Ogun states, as well as the construction of the Osogbo–Ikirun–Akoda and Osogbo–Iwo–Ibadan roads in Osun and Oyo states.

Speaking during the signing ceremony, Umahi described the projects as part of the infrastructure drive of the administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

According to a statement issued by his media aide, Francis Nwaze, the minister said the government had already procured the first 123 kilometres single carriageway section of the Calabar-Ebonyi-Abuja Superhighway from Calabar through Ebonyi State to the Benue border.

He explained that the newly signed section covers another 173 kilometres through Benue, Kogi and Nasarawa states to the Oweto Bridge.

Umahi said the project would significantly reduce travel time between the South-East and Abuja while boosting economic activities along the corridor.

“With this project, any part of the South-East you are in, you will be in Abuja in three to four hours. And this is a plus to our commercial activities,” he said.

The minister also commended Tinubu for what he described as increased federal infrastructure attention to the South-East.

He expressed confidence that the region would reciprocate the President’s support in future political engagements.