Lagos-Calabar Coastal Rd project Archives

Lagos-Calabar super highway project: FG secures $1.2bn financing for Phase-1

December 27, 2025December 27, 2025 Aminu Imam

The Federal Government says it has secured $1.26 billion in financing for the execution of the second section of the first phase of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. Announcing the loan in a statement yesterday, the presidency said President Bola Tinubu commended the ministries of finance and works, and the Debt Management Office (DMO) for collaborating on the latest transaction. Tinubu was said to have made commitments that the federal government would continue to explore innovative financing options to fund critical projects nationwide. He was quoted as saying: “This is a…

FG temporarily opens 47km-section of Lagos-Calabar coastal highway

December 13, 2025December 13, 2025 Aminu Imam

Commuters in Lagos may have cause to smile this festive season as the Federal Government yesterday temporarily opened Section-1 of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway. The section measures 47 kilometres, and stretches from the Ahmadu Bello Way junction to Eleko village junction. Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, announced the opening of the section at an event attended by government officials, traditional rulers, and other key stakeholders. He told the gathering in Lagos that the opening of the highway will bring ease to commuters and is expected to end the harrowing driving…

Lagos-Calabar coastal highway costs ₦7.5bn/kilometre – Umahi

October 14, 2025October 14, 2025 Aminu Imam

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, has justified the ₦7.5 billion per kilometre cost of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, insisting that the ₦1.067 trillion budgeted for the first 47.47-kilometre section is fair, and even below global benchmarks. Addressing newsmen in a recent briefing, Umahi explained that the project’s cost reflects its complex design – a 6-lane reinforced concrete expressway featuring flyovers, underpasses, shoreline protection, solar lighting, and landscaping. “A standard coastal road costs ₦7.5 billion per kilometre. This includes all fillings, shore protections, solar streetlights, and the planting of trees”, Umahi…

‘Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project is a scam’ — Babachir Lawal

July 12, 2025July 12, 2025 Aminu Imam

Former Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, has expressed strong reservations about the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project, describing it as lacking in transparency and questioning its impact on Nigerians. Speaking during a televised interview, Lawal said he does not believe the project addresses the developmental needs of Nigerians, citing what he perceives as a lack of tangible progress on infrastructure across the country. “If you ask me, ‘What projects has this government implemented so far that are visible to Nigerians and have impacted their lives?’ I…

“Investors eager to fund Lagos-Calabar highway” – Umahi

July 6, 2025July 6, 2025 Aminu Imam

…Says FG opens to Kanu talks The Federal Government has revealed that several financial institutions have shown strong interest in funding major infrastructure projects such as the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and the Sokoto-Badagry Superhighway. Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, disclosed this while addressing newsmen in Lagos on Friday, after inspecting ongoing works on the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway and some bridges in the state. “I have had meetings with a lot of financial institutions, and they are very eager to participate. We are doing everything to complete Section-One by December…

Lagos-Calabar 30km coastal highway closed 10 days after launch

June 16, 2025June 16, 2025 Aminu Imam

There was euphoria and excitement on Saturday, May 31, 2025 when President Bola Tinubu, at an elaborate gathering of politicians, captains of industry and sundry stakeholders, commissioned the Section 1, Phase-1 of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, measuring 30 kilometres. That excitement, however, is thinning out, as the road that was declared ready and commissioned is not yet fully open to motorists because, “work is still on-going from the Dangote Refinery end and at some points at Eko Ekate”, according to one of the workers at the site. The worker, who…

Tinubu to unveil 11 roads today

May 31, 2025May 31, 2025 Aminu Imam

President Bola Tinubu will today, Saturday, commission 11 completed road projects across Nigeria, including the first completed section of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway. The Federal Ministry of Works, which announced yesterday, said the commissioning, which will be held both physically and virtually, follows presidential approval secured by the Minister of Works, David Umahi, to officially open a 30-kilometre stretch of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road to traffic. The event will take place at Kilometre-8 of the project corridor, near Jakande Estate in Lagos State. An issued statement by Umahi’s aide, Orji…

Coastal highway: Protesters�appeal�to�Tinubu, Umahi�to stop planned diversion

June 21, 2024June 21, 2024 Aminu Imam

Some residents of Okun Ajah, in the Eti Osa local government area of Lagos State have cried out over an alleged ethnic bias and favouritism in the planned re-routing of the Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway in the community, urging the Government not to spare law breakers at their expense. The residents, who spoke on the issue, expressed serious concerns that some rich property owners from a certain region of the country who had clearly encroached on the coastal road masterplan have induced some top government officials to ensure that the…

“?Stop $13bn�coastal highway project” – Afenifere�urges FG

May 13, 2024May 13, 2024 Aminu Imam

The pan-Yoruba socio-cultural group, Afenifere has said that the Federal Government�s 700-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway is illegal, environmentally-destructive, and urged the Federal Government to halt it because it�s of no economic benefit, apart from being moves to convert Nigeria�s coastline to nepotistic private business. ?Articulating its position in an issued statement signed by Prince Justice Faloye, of its Publicity Department, the group said that: �the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway project is illegal, for not only breaching competitive tendering stipulations, but for also contravening the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) Act, as stipulated…

“Stop Lagos-Calabar coastal road, improve Inland Waterways”- Chidoka cautions Tinubu

May 11, 2024May 11, 2024 Aminu Imam

Former Minister of Aviation, Osita Chidoka, says it is not late for President Bola Tinubu to stop the controversial Lagos-Calabar coastal road project and subject it to further public conversations. The former minister, who was a guest on a television programme on Thursday, was asked what he would do about the project if he was the President considering the controversy it has generated, to which he replied that he would stop it. �Stop it now and subject it to public conversation; because the financiers cannot raise finance for this project…