What's All The Noise Over Calabar Coastal Highway Flag-Off For? (Nigeria)

 Nigeria is constructing a 700m coastal highway to Calabar.  

What does that mean? Picture a Malibu road highway, or an expanded Miami s Ocean Drive, with roads stretching for miles besides the aquatic splendour of the ocean. That's what highway intends to look like. 

This is good. Very good for Nigerian motorists asoy would decongest heavy traffic from Lagis - Ibadan expressway to this coastal highway. 

Lagos - Ibadan expressway is called the busiest highway in Nigeria because it is the only highway that connects Lagos, Nigeria's commercial capital, to the rest of the country. Lagos experiences an I flow of one million people daily according to Raji Fashola then governor of Lagos in 2008.

 So, picture vehicles ferrying at least a million people travelling to the hustling former Nigeria's federal capital on an eight-lane stretch of road daily. There is no other exit road. It is little wonder it is notorious for heavy traffic jams, at times late until the night. 

With a coastal highway out of Lagos now, it is a big relief. 

But, what is the hoopla yesterday about? The road is calculated to stretch for 700 meters. The federal government flagged off construction of THIRTY METRES out of this. Just thirty metres! Not even 300 or 300, at least to experience a faster rate of completion.

For a country notorious for embarking in huge projects with allocations of extremely billions and trillions of naira, only for it not to be completed. Worst, successive governments abandon such projects instead of completing them, in order to propose other gargantuan projects if their own, this not cheering news. Ajaokura Steel Complex readily comes to mind. 

The federal government should do better. We will breathe easier if this coastal highway is completed during this Tinubu administration. We are not sure a succeeding administration will pick it up. 

Even if this construction project is going to be staggered, starting with a mere 30 metres is too little. Two hundred metres would have been ideal. 


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