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Julius Berger Nigeria Plc says it will resume full repair
work on the Lagos-Ibadan Express Way by the end of
September. Already, the construction firm said it had commenced remedial work at some failed sections of the road ahead of the major work.

The rehabilitation work on the road was halted by the
company a couple of months ago following some issues
bearing on finance with the Federal Government.
A report by the News Agency of Nigeria on Thursday
indicated this crediting a reliable source from Julius
Berger.

It stated that officials and other workers of the company
were already on the road preparing for the work ahead.
It quoted some officials of the company to have said that
the road rehabilitation would start from kilometre 12
otherwise known as the ‘’long bridge’’ and would run
towards the Sagamu Interchange.

They said the skeletal work started on August 8 at the
Wawa Bus-Stop along the expressway.
The company has already started moving heavy duty
equipment and road barriers from its yard at the
Sagamu-Interchange to Wawa Bus-Stop at Kilometre 12.
The barriers were being taken to Wawa Bus-Stop where
workers were already repairing the median along the
expressway.

Julius Berger started the road rehabilitation from the
Sagamu Interchange towards Lagos during the initial
phase of the reconstruction exercise.

The rehabilitation of the entire Lagos-Ibadan Expressway
was awarded in 2013 at a total cost of N167bn by
former President Goodluck Jonathan.

The six-lane road rehabilitation project is being handled
by Julius Berger Construction Company and Reynolds
Construction Company.

The expressway is now being built to three lanes on both
sides up to Sagamu Junction and two lanes up to Ibadan.
A fly-over and interchange are being built at the
Redemption Camp area to solve the perennial gridlock
on that section of the road.

The Federal Government terminated a concession
agreement on the maintenance of the road with Messrs
Bi-Courtney in 2012 because of alleged inability of the
company to make progress after four years.

A former Minister of Works, Mr. Mike Olememen, had
said in 2013 that the contract work would consist of
reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan dual carriageway
from Sagamu to Ibadan.

He also said that the road reconstruction would
commence at the Sagamu Interchange in Ogun State and
terminate at Ojoo Interchange in Ibadan, a total length of
about 84 kilometres.

The road is made up of a two-lane dual carriageway of
7.3 metres on each direction, 2.75 metres of outer hard
shoulder and 1.8 metres of inner hard shoulder and
median.

Thank God o

GOOD NEWS

absoluteSuccess:
GOOD NEWS

Good. They should extend the good work to the Benin-Auchi road.

Good news

EdCure:

Good. They should extend the good work to the Benin-Auchi road.

Also hasten work on the EN-PH expressway, and divert traffic to the splendid lane they are currently constructing.