The Federal Government has provided clarity on the six-lane Lagos-Badagry Expressway project and its connection to the proposed Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway.
Speaking in an interview with journalists on Thursday, the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mrs Olukorede Kesha, explained that Nigeria’s section of the regional highway spans 79 kilometres, from Eric Moore in Lagos to the Seme Border.
She said that the Lagos-Badagry Expressway formed part of the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway.
She stated, “The existing project on Lagos-Badagry Expressway is a project of the Federal Government of Nigeria. For clarity purposes, that road is about 79km from Eric Moore.”
According to Kesha, the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway is 1,028km.
She said that the 46.2km section of the Nigerian side of the highway project – from Agbara to Seme – had been awarded to a contractor by the Federal Government.
She said that the Okokomaiko to Agbara section was being overseen by the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency.
She said that the highway project was still in its design phase.
NAN reports that the design phase will be completed in May, after which the construction will begin.
NAN recalls that the Federal Ministry of Works had, in March, held a stakeholder engagement with the armed forces, police, paramilitary and border communities on the Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway Development Project of the ECOWAS Commission, at Seme Border.
The engagement began at Agbara, where royal fathers, youths, community leaders and others engaged the ECOWAS Commission and Federal Ministry of Works officials.
