The Federal Government has commenced the dualisation of Benin-Lokoja-Abuja Express way which was flagged-off Friday by the Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Onolemenmen who urged the contractors and the supervising team of the ministry to do everything within their professional competences to actualize the project.

The project, according to him would be divided into four sections namely Benin-Ehor, Ehor-Irrua, Irrua-Auchi, and Auchi-Lokoja.

He disclosed that the multi-billion naira project is expected to be completed in 30 months, adding that when completed, President Goodluck Jonathan would have delivered on his promise to link the six geo-political zones in the country with dual carriage ways.

His words: “You will recall that in 2006, the Federal Executive Council [FEC] awarded four sections of the dualisation of Abuja-Lokoja road to Messers Dantata and Sawoe Construction Company Nig. Ltd, RCC Nig. Ltd, Bulletin Construction Nig.Ltd and Gitto Construzoioni Genralli Nig. Ltd respectively.

“Initially these projects were constrained by inadequate budgetary provision which made the project to linger until the establishment of SURE-P by Mr. President in January 2012. This action has injected the much needed funds required for the completion of the projects and I am optimistic that the four projects will be fully realized by March 2014”.

The Minister explained that the Federal Ministry of Works followed a thorough rigorous competitive tender that saw the emergence of the contractors now saddled with the responsibilities of actualizing the dream of completion of the projects.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/fg-commences-dualisation-of-benin-auchi-lokoja-abuja-road/139662/

By the time most of President Jonathan's projects near completion towards late 2014, even haters would scream wow!! How did this happen?

Sincere 9gerian: By the time most of President Jonathan projects would near completion towards late 2014, even haters would scream wow!! How did this happen?

Good. Please tell him to work on the East west road too. It's hard to believe any road project will be completed, when he has been unable to execute the one in his backyard.

He said meaningful projects will be initiated and executed in 2013. He also said Nigerians should wait patiently and assess him after 2013, now I know say Gej mean business. Goodluck to Goodluck

Dual carriage all the way....abuja to lokoja....lokoja to benin...benin to onitsha....onitsha to enugu....enugu to port harcourt! Can they all be completed before d end of dis tenure!

If GEJ can complete These roads before his tenure ends

Lagos-ibadan
Sagamu-benin
East-west road
Abuja-lokoja
Enugu-onitsha
Enugu-port harcourt
Ibadan-ilorin
Kano-maidugri

He should be adjudged as d best govt in achievment!

billante: Dual carriage all the way....abuja to lokoja....lokoja to benin...benin to onitsha....onitsha to enugu....enugu to port harcourt! Can they all be completed before d end of dis tenure!

If GEJ can complete These roads before his tenure ends

Lagos-ibadan
Sagamu-benin
East-west road
Abuja-lokoja
Enugu-onitsha
Enugu-port harcourt
Ibadan-ilorin
Kano-maidugri

He should be adjudged as d best govt in achievment!

Hmmm.... If truly these roads can be worked on and finished before his tenure expires and then stable power supply, Naija don better be that. I would vote for his annointed sef if He doesn't re-contest. One just hope the quality of the roads wouldn't be compromised. Good one frm FG

GEJ also has to send out a strong message on his fight against corruption to prove that he's capable of leading this country till 2019.

No be to Commence, na to Complete dey important! Work commenced on lots of abandoned projects in the past, but has not been completed while some were completely abandoned!

take dat: No be to Commence, na to Complete dey important! Work commenced on lots of abandoned projects in the past, but has not been completed while some were completely abandoned!

But when Lagos state govt commenced the laying of tracks on the Lagos light rail project, it was popping of champagne and celebration galore by the "Eko oni ba je" on this same forum.
I hypocrisy unprecedented!

Kindly point to one (1) project that was started (or continued in case of inherited abandoned projects) by GEJ and later stopped

Sincere 9gerian:
But when Lagos state govt commenced the laying of tracks on the Lagos light rail project, it was popping of champagne and celebration galore by the "Eko oni ba je" on this same forum.
I hypocrisy unprecedented!

Kindly point to one (1) project that was started (or continued in case of inherited abandoned projects) by GEJ and later stopped

Kindly dig out any of my posts to lay claim that I am a member of the "Eko oni baje" crew. If you are unable to do that, then you are the real hypocrite!

My initial post was borne out of the fact that projects executed by government are snail paced because of paucity of funds, allocations for them come in piece meal and corruption e.g East-West road. There is no way government wld complete the dualisation, even if there is the political will to do so that won't take a minimum of 4years. To disprove this claim, Kindly point out to a project initiated by Jonathan and has been completed in the last two years! I expressed my reservations because I know how things work in Nigeria!

billante: Dual carriage all the way....abuja to lokoja....lokoja to benin...benin to onitsha....onitsha to enugu....enugu to port harcourt! Can they all be completed before d end of dis tenure!

If GEJ can complete These roads before his tenure ends

Lagos-ibadan
Sagamu-benin
East-west road
Abuja-lokoja
Enugu-onitsha
Enugu-port harcourt
Ibadan-ilorin
Kano-maidugri

He should be adjudged as d best govt in achievment!

@BOLDED, I agree considerable progress has been achieved on that stretch, especially the Awka - Onitsha part of it. The Enugu-awka was more of patch work.

FG should also do something about Enugu - Abakaliki road. That road has been a nightmare to users.

plendil:

@BOLDED, I agree considerable progress has been achieved on that stretch, especially the Awka - Onitsha part of it. The Enugu-awka was more of patch work.

FG should also do something about Enugu - Abakaliki road. That road has been a nightmare to users.

Enugu state govt is dualizing its end, Ebonyi shld do same for their own end and collect refund from FG!

take dat: Kindly dig out any of my posts to lay claim that I am a member of the "Eko oni baje" crew. If you are unable to do that, then you are the real hypocrite!

My initial post was borne out of the fact that projects executed by government are snail paced because of paucity of funds, allocations for them come in piece meal and corruption e.g East-West road. There is no way government wld complete the dualisation, even if there is the political will to do so that won't take a minimum of 4years. To disprove this claim, Kindly point out to a project initiated by Jonathan and has been completed in the last two years! I expressed my reservations because I know how things work in Nigeria!

You dont have to scream "Eko oni ba je" for you to belong to the camp of the notorious hypocrites. You'r definitely one of them, though a more conservative member. Anyway, its all good, as it's within your right to freely associate and express your opinion

And so what! Gej should oversee its completion first.

Sincere 9gerian:
You dont have to scream "Eko oni ba je" for you to belong to the camp of the notorious hypocrites. You'r definitely one of them, though a more conservative member. Anyway, its all good, as it's within your right to freely associate and express your opinion

If you are in a rivalry with the "Eko oni baje" crew, kindly slug it out with them and count me out of it! Trash talking tool labelling everyone who expresses his/her reservations as hater or hypocrite!

Joke of the century, even thought there more than 80 years left in this century.

ba7man: GEJ also has to send out a strong message on his fight against corruption to prove that he's capable of leading this country till 2019.

another story from the stables of big promise jona

Jonathan is really working. He is doing virtually every major road in the country after 2 years of his election as president.
Many road projects abandoned for ages are receiving attention. It took Jonathan to start Benin-Ore-Sagamu road. Enugu-Ph , Kano-Maidugri Dualisation etc.
The govt is really trying it's best while haters keep hating

Sincere 9gerian: By the time most of President Jonathan's projects near completion towards late 2014, even haters would scream wow!! How did this happen?

Continue to live in self-delusion, illusions never come true. By the time the end of 2014 comes, you'll be trying to convince us that the projects have not. been abandoned!

Sincere 9gerian:
But when Lagos state govt commenced the laying of tracks on the Lagos light rail project, it was popping of champagne and celebration galore by the "Eko oni ba je" on this same forum.
I hypocrisy unprecedented!

Kindly point to one (1) project that was started (or continued in case of inherited abandoned projects) by GEJ and later stopped

I think you are largely right here...

take dat: If you are in a rivalry with the "Eko oni baje" crew, kindly slug it out with them and count me out of it! Trash talking tool labelling everyone who expresses his/her reservations as hater or hypocrite!

If they only express such reservation when it comes to FG projects but not when it involves ACN controlled states, then they'r hypocrites! But if they express such reservation for politicians in general, then they'r not hypocrites. Unfortunately, the former is common with the "Eko oni ba je" crew.

Again, what do you call a group of people who started from DAY ONE to call the president of this country all sorts of malicious names, accompanied by insults and curses, and sees absolutely nothing good about EVERY action or inaction of the president? I call them psycopathic haters.

Please what of Lagos - Ibadan and the Oshogbo - Ede -Iwo -Ibadan roads? I travelled from Lagos to Iresi yesterday and Aregbesola has done or is constructing far more roads than the FG in the southwest, infact, I did not see a single FG road project and. I covered over 600 kilometers.

"FG commences" plenty for our dictionary. Sadly, "FG completed" or "FG actualized" are so hard to find.

They should do something about this road: Enugu - Makurdi expressway i.e. 9th mile - Makurdi road.
This road needs to be dualized. It is the only roa leading to UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA. Whether you going from the east or going from the north, to the university, you must pass that road.
That road has taken too much live. I thing Senator Ayogu Eze promised he would press FG to do that road after he witnessed a serious accident on that road. Just google ''accident on 9th mile - makurdi express way'' or 'accident on Enugu - makurdi expressway' and see the result.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/four-newly-discharged-nysc-members-24-others-die-in-enugu-road-crash/93593

kenis: They should do something about this road: Enugu - Makurdi expressway i.e. 9th mile - Makurdi road.
This road needs to be dualized. It is the only roa leading to UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA. Whether you going from the east or going from the north, to the university, you must pass that road.
That road has taken too much live. I thing Senator Ayogu Eze promised he would press FG to do that road after he witnessed a serious accident on that road. Just google ''accident on 9th mile - makurdi express way'' or 'accident on Enugu - makurdi expressway' and see the result.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/four-newly-discharged-nysc-members-24-others-die-in-enugu-road-crash/93593

If they take every road at the same time do you think they will complete any!....there is something that is called priority! beside that road u mentioned is being totally resurfaced by ferma contractor, they have done about 72km out of the whole 90km of the road.

dualizing road doesn't stop accident even though it might reduce it....drivers should stop over speeding and drive safely....dats wat eradicate accident

Abuja-Lokoja road? Is this not the road that has been going on for more than 10years? Ok o

story story

Sincere 9gerian:
If they only express such reservation when it comes to FG projects but not when it involves ACN controlled states, then they'r hypocrites! But if they express such reservation for politicians in general, then they'r not hypocrites. Unfortunately, the former is common with the "Eko oni ba je" crew.

Again, what do you call a group of people who started from DAY ONE to call the president of this country all sorts of malicious names, accompanied by insults and curses, and sees absolutely nothing good about EVERY action or inaction of the president? I call them psycopathic haters.

Can you please point to Projects initiated and abandoned by ACN in Lagos state?
Waiting for you lame and feeble conjectures as usual.

otokx: story story

Omo Nigerians don wisen up, PDP'S Tales by Moonlight don enter grave.

asala1: Abuja-Lokoja road? Is this not the road that has been going on for more than 10years? Ok o

Its an extension of dat road from Lokoja or thereabout to Auchi/Benin in Edo state. The Abuja-Lokoja section has bn substantiali done, esp in d last yr with d help of SURE-P, and wud almost certainly wud be completd by early next yr going by dis pace. Hv u usd d road recently??

What is happening on Lagos Ibadan expressway?

kenis: They should do something about this road: Enugu - Makurdi expressway i.e. 9th mile - Makurdi road.
This road needs to be dualized. It is the only roa leading to UNIVERSITY OF NIGERIA NSUKKA. Whether you going from the east or going from the north, to the university, you must pass that road.
That road has taken too much live. I thing Senator Ayogu Eze promised he would press FG to do that road after he witnessed a serious accident on that road. Just google ''accident on 9th mile - makurdi express way'' or 'accident on Enugu - makurdi expressway' and see the result.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/four-newly-discharged-nysc-members-24-others-die-in-enugu-road-crash/93593

I ply that road frequently and can say for a fact that a majority of the accidents are due to reckless driving. Especially the commercial transporters, Peace et al. Overtaking at bends, speeds in excess of 140km/hr are common occurrences. I sometimes wonder what they smoke before going behind the wheels.

I don't know if you may be aware of just how bad that road used to be before the renovation. Then accidents were not this frequent.