President Tinubu approves six major road projects across Nigeria

President Bola Tinubu has approved the operation of six large roadworthy projects crossed the country.

He besides approved the projected demolition of the Carter Bridge successful Lagos and the redesign of a caller bridge.

This was disclosed by the Minister of Works, Dav Umahi, connected Wednesday.

According to Umahi, the roadworthy projects approved for operation include:

The Suleja–Minna Road, which was primitively awarded to Salini Construction Company but aboriginal terminated owed to mediocre performance. Umahi said lone 10 km of the roadworthy was completed earlier the declaration was cancelled.

He said the authorities has present resolved to implicit the remaining 71 kilometres of the dual carriageway, with 1 carriageway awarded to China Geo-Engineering Corporation (CGC) astatine a outgo of ₦91 billion. The 2nd carriageway, helium added, has besides received clearance from the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP).

Design and costing of a caller Carter Bridge task successful Lagos for ₦5.6 billion. Umahi said that method evaluations and stakeholder consultations concluded that the existing Carter Bridg...