I was going through Linda ikeji's blog and i saw this post;
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Please, if you have passed through the road recently,can you post pictures or post your reviews on how safe and convenient travelling has become on the road.

This is the link to the Linda Ikeji blog post: http://lindaikeji..co.uk/2012/04/transformation-comes-to-benin-lagos.html

Yes, the road has been fixed.
What a generation of "strong leaders" could not achieve has been accomplished.
Fresh Air!!!

How come Nigerian roads are so UGLY despite the huge money they spend on them? Can they expand the road and make it more presentable?

The major portion of the road was contracted to RCC and I know they came on site and started working since 2007 - 2008 latest, well before Jonah got into power. He can't take the praise for this. That's for OBJ/Yar'Adua.

It's good to see the project received needed funding sha. It's been good for a while now and I think I mentioned it here last year. They've been reconstructing the road for years now so there are no major terrible spots like there used to be any longer.

shymmex: How come Nigerian roads are so UGLY despite the huge money they spend on them? Can they expand the road and make it more presentable?

Exactly. The road looks somehow to my eyes. I think I should go back and visit soon before everything will become strange to me

shymmex: How come Nigerian roads are so UGLY despite the huge money they spend on them? Can they expand the road and make it more presentable?

The pic doesn't actually best represent the standard portions of the road. I guess the portion with pics taken isn't fully completed.

The 100% completed parts have two lanes, a third park lane/mini lane made up of compressed gravel and then a V-shaped drainage beside it. This is on both sides.

the second picture is not the benin ore road. it is not

Linda ikeji' is a disappointment.

Career critics of President Goodluck Jonathan will no doubt try and downplay the miraculous road surface overhaul now nearing completion on the Lagos to Benin Expressway, after THIRTY years of utter neglect. Possibly for the first time since that highway was brand new, motorists can cover the distance between Lagos and Benin in just a few hours of smooth sailing at true highway speeds.

There is no way to measure how many human lives are going to be saved from the long overdue repair being carried out on Nigeria's primary east-west economic artery, and there can be no accurate means to quantify the economic benefits ALREADY being realized by the drastic reduction in travel times along that now pristine highway, as compared to the DAYS on end spent trapped on that same road back when its surface was pockmarked with more craters than that of the moon.

Johnny Goodluck, this brand spankin' new highway you conjured up will lead you to your second term as Nigeria's president, but to guarantee that destiny, provide Nigeria with stable electrical power, while neutralizing all who try to stop you from performing that second, sorely-needed miracle.

razznaija: I was going through Linda ikeji's blog and i saw this post;
[img]http://2.bp..com/-TpXYghjgkYI/T3guEXYOMQI/AAAAAAAAUec/SOvolF2djDY/s1600/Benin-Ore-Expressway.gif[/img]
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[img]http://4.bp..com/-UnA6f5fEn-Y/T3guF-VP0II/AAAAAAAAUek/mZ-RM13cgQg/s1600/560530_10150696280915279_514965278_9256529_110965845_n.jpg[/img]
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Please, if you have passed through the road recently,can you post pictures or post your reviews on how safe and convenient travelling has become on the road.

The two pictures are definitely not of the same road. Do check out the median in the two roads.

Even if it is not the same stretch of road shown in both pictures, that entire highway HAS been overhauled, after 30 years of governmental neglect, making that road overhaul President Goodluck Jonathan's crowning glory till date.

Johnny B. Goode, transform Nigeria's electrical power supply like you have done its main economic thoroughfare, and you WILL win that next election for your assured second term as Nigeria's president, hands down.

hurray! finally after waiting 1000 years!

I hope it will last long.

dont want to doubt- just need clarification- is this thread stating that the entire Benin-Lagos road stretch has been fixed

Iolo: The major portion of the road was contracted to RCC and I know they came on site and started working since 2007 - 2008 latest, well before Jonah got into power. He can't take the praise for this. That's for OBJ/Yar'Adua.

It's good to see the project received needed funding sha. It's been good for a while now and I think I mentioned it here last year. They've been reconstructing the road for years now so there are no major terrible spots like there used to be any longer.

You will give credit to Jonathan. Why? He provided the fund and showed the will to get it done. Did he change the contract sum? No!

I am sure some of the subsidy money was used to expedite action on the road as they promised. Well done Johnny Goodluck!

Is this not the same road oshiomhole and the minster of works were fighting to renoavte at the benin end of it ? Can someone who plied the road of recent update us pleae ?

still works to be done is not yet ready..........

The concrete demarcation on the second picture can be found on any portion of Benin Lagos Express Way. They're different roads.

jaymdee: The concrete demarcation on the second picture can be found on any portion of Benin Lagos Express Way. They're different roads.

So where is this propaganda coming from ?

jaymdee: The concrete demarcation on the second picture can be found on any portion of Benin Lagos Express Way. They're different roads.

very true observation. Work is moving at a fast pace around the ore axis but 100% complete? I'd say not yet

I drove from Lagos to Benin last week and I will say it has improved tremendously though not 100 percent completed. Unfortunately, I couldn't take any pic as I wasn't alone in d car and didn't want to waste anyone's time. Nonetheless, I think there is a really big improvement on d road. About 20 mins from Ore towards Benin, d road is still bad, so I had to reduce my speed. Moreso, at some points along d way, some section of d road was closed while oncoming vehicles had to share d same lane with vehicles from d opposite direction. My assessment is that it took me a shorter time to get back to Lagos than when I was travelling out to Benin. I believe that with time, d whole construction would be sorted.

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jaymdee: The concrete demarcation on the second picture can be found on any portion of Benin Lagos Express Way. They're different roads.

I am sure you meant to write, "The concrete demarcation on the second picture can not be found on any portion of Benin Lagos Express Way. They're different roads."

We should be happy that the road had been fixed-and be appreciative some are talking about texture blah blah blah i think this is Fresh air,fresh air,fresh air

razznaija: I was going through Linda ikeji's blog and i saw this post;
[img]http://2.bp..com/-TpXYghjgkYI/T3guEXYOMQI/AAAAAAAAUec/SOvolF2djDY/s1600/Benin-Ore-Expressway.gif[/img]
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[img]http://4.bp..com/-UnA6f5fEn-Y/T3guF-VP0II/AAAAAAAAUek/mZ-RM13cgQg/s1600/560530_10150696280915279_514965278_9256529_110965845_n.jpg[/img]
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Please, if you have passed through the road recently,can you post pictures or post your reviews on how safe and convenient travelling has become on the road.

Smh. Is Linda Ikeji not a mouthpiece and apologist of the present govt? She would do anything to give the failed govt a face. Let people who pass thru that route confirm the development. I am not interested in Linda Ikeji's Paparazzi and gossip.

I will find out on Friday morning and revert. I am personally doing teh haul to the eastern parts for teh easter holiday. when i get back, i will update you guys, but i would not take pictures oo

In-4MATIC:

very true observation. Work is moving at a fast pace around the ore axis but 100% complete? I'd say not yet

I agree with the above, the whole highway has been "finished" as shown in the second picture. The only stretch of the highway that is not yet tarred is the ore axis, however, the whole axis has been covered with gravel in preparation for tarring.

The question is, are they going to award a contract for maintenance?

Koolking:

Smh. Is Linda Ikeji not a mouthpiece and apologist of the present govt? She would do anything to give the failed govt a face. Let people who pass thru that route confirm the development. I am not interested in Linda Ikeji's Paparazzi and gossip.

And where's the evidence backing up your spurious that she's govt mouthpiece? Infact it's the contrary. Check out her blog thruout the subsidy crisis.
@OP. I dont think linda ikeji's blog is the best link in this situation. Those pictures has been circulating all over the internet for sometime now. Was in Ore in march and the road was certainly still far from completed,though there's improvement

The second picture could be any road.