•Lagos Calabar Coastal Road project President Bola Tinubu has commended the successful closure of a $1.26bn financing deal for Phase 1, Section 2 of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway, describing the achievement as a major boost to Nigeria’s infrastructure drive. Presidential spokesman, Bayo Onanuga, in a statement yesterday said the President ...
The federal government has temporarily opened Section 1 of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, measuring 47 kilometres and stretching from the Ahmadu Bello Way junction to Eleko village junction. Minister of Works, Engineer Dave Umahi, announced today that the highway will be temporarily opened in accordance with President Bola Tinubu’s directi...
•Atiku, Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and Umahi Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, has said that he has been vindicated over allegation of inflation of the cost of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. In a statement yesterday through his Special Assistant on Public Communication, Phrank Shaibu, Atiku asked the federal government to publish fu...
Months after President Bola Ahmed Tinubu commissioned the “completed” 30-kilometre parts of the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, about 18km of the road is ready for use at a stretch from its starting point at Ahmadu Bello Way, Victoria Island. Section 1 of the highway spreads from Ahmadu Bello Way to Eleko Village area in the […]...
•Okengwu, Lagos-Calabar Highway and works minister Umahi A real estate investor, Stella Okengwu, has made a startling revelation about the corruption in the ongoing Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project. Speaking on Channels Television today, the Diaspora-based real estate practitioner alleged that top officials in the federal works ministry a...
•The protesters A group of protesters have made a renewed call for compensation to victims of property demolition, following construction of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The group, under the aegis of Coalition of Concerned Individuals, made the call during a peaceful march held in Lagos yesterday, to press home their demands for compensa...
Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has criticised one of President Bola Tinubu’s flagship projects — the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road — describing it as a “scam” and accusing the administration of failing to work for the people. Lawal stated this during an appearance on Channels Television today. “If you ...
The federal government has slated 700 properties for demolition to pave the way for the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project. This was revealed by the Lagos State Controller of Works, Mrs. Olukorede Kesha, during a stakeholders’ meeting held yesterday, reports The PUNCH. Kesha noted that the figure represents a substantial reduction from earl...
•David Umahi The Minister for Works, David Umahi, has declared that the Lagos-Calabar highway project is neither a wasteful nor corrupt venture. Recall that former President Olusegun Obasanjo had described the N15.6 trillion Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway project as wasteful and corrupt, reports The PUNCH. The former president disclosed this in...
•Martin Onovo A seasoned activist and politician, Chief Martin Onovo, is the 2015 presidential candidate of the National Conscience Party (NCP). Currently, the Head, Policy Positions, Movement for Fundamental Change (MFC), Onovo, who is an oils sector expert, in this interview, speaks on the inability of some states to pay the national minimum...
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