Section one of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to be commissioned in May – Umahi

The Minister of Works, Senator Engr. David Umahi, has assured that Section One of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway is scheduled for commissioning by May.

He gave the assurance connected Saturday, February 21, 2026, during an inspection of the project, arsenic the Federal Government intensifies enactment connected the strategical coastal corridor linking Lagos to the South-South and South-East.

Senator Umahi said the advancement recorded connected the conception shows the determination of the medication of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to present transformative infrastructure contempt hard terrain and biology challenges.

He noted that heavy ungraded conditions, with pits reaching implicit 20 metres, had tested engineering limits but were being successfully handled.

This was contained successful a connection issued by the Minister’s Senior peculiar Assistant connected Media, Francis Nwaze and made disposable to journalists.

“We person nary uncertainty that a antheral who worked with a precise courageous president to tame the Atlantic Ocean tin ever subdue the challenges we person connected this coastal route.

“Well, the conception wherever we are is not the astir challenging conception of this route. This is conception one, chainage 34. What we are seeing present is not antithetic from what we saw successful chainage 18. From the information from HITECH, the pit present is 20 meters deep, an mean of 18 to 21 meters heavy present and astatine chainage 18, we had astir 22 meters heavy of...