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danilmo:
Ondo state has good road biko, except for internal part of Ore

naptu2:
Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs




https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/1399437992176070659

naptu2:
Here's a little bit of background.

1) President Yar'Adua gave the Lagos State Government permission to take over the road and fix it. That is the stretch of the road from Orile to Okokomaiko. The Lagos State Government is building a ten lane highway with a BRT corridor and rail line.


2) However, the Federal Government is still in charge of the section from Okokomaiko to Badagry. A few years ago (around 2 years ago) the Federal Government awarded a contract for the rehabilitation of that section of the road, however, the work has been going on very slowly and last month the minister admitted that it was because they are owing the contractor.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/453174-why-lagos-badagry-expressway-is-yet-to-be-fixed-fashola.html

yunuloons:
Are you Igbos cursed for God sake. Which of your foolish state dare embark on building a railing that your bigoted dead brain father is demanding for completion of a rail project

naptu2:
Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs




https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/1399437992176070659

omonnakoda:
Something does not add up.

I thought Lagos state was doing this road.

Now the story is changing

naptu2:
Here's a little bit of background.

1) President Yar'Adua gave the Lagos State Government permission to take over the road and fix it. That is the stretch of the road from Orile to Okokomaiko. The Lagos State Government is building a ten lane highway with a BRT corridor and rail line.


2) However, the Federal Government is still in charge of the section from Okokomaiko to Badagry. A few years ago (around 2 years ago) the Federal Government awarded a contract for the rehabilitation of that section of the road, however, the work has been going on very slowly and last month the minister admitted that it was because they are owing the contractor. https://www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/ssouth-west/453174-why-lagos-badagry-expressway-is-yet-to-be-fixed-fashola.html

naptu2:
“Lagos-Badagry Expressway is one that I am aware of that doesn't have sufficient funding.

"Lagos-Badagry Expressway is an international gateway"


"We heard that Ghana, Republic of Benin and Togo have done their own; it is trans-West Africa corridor which five countries pass through. But it is only the Nigerian part of it that has not been fully fixed, which is from Seme boarder into Lagos and go straight to the port".


“But Lagos on its own has taken leap to start something. So, we are doing a 10-lane highway and we have done almost 18 kilometers of that and we are taking it to a place called Okokomaiko".


"We have been expecting the Federal Government and the Federal Ministry of Works to push it and take it to Badagry. Our desire is for them to make it 10-lane highway. We are building for the future and we can put a rail in the middle of the corridor".


"When we are building for a future, we should not be scared. It is an international road and it has capacity to take high level of traffic. That is one place we believe you will look into.”

4four:
Some body should pls help me check the economy activities going on this Badagry road and Daura to Niger Republic road, I just want to check something

naptu2:
Jubril A. Gawat @Mr_JAGs




https://twitter.com/Mr_JAGs/status/1399437992176070659

Funding Hampers Lagos-Badagry Expressway —Fashola

Wednesday, January 9, 2013 2:31 pm

Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State says completing the Lagos-Badagry Expressway is tied to funding, which the state government is currently grappling with.



The governor also disclosed plans to build 1008 flats estate this year in Ijora area of the state as part of plans to enable many people own their homes.

Fashola spoke during a tour of projects across Lagos, southwest Nigeria on Tuesday, saying that funding is one of the determinants of the project.

He explained thatbit is one of the reasons why he went to the House of Representatives to appeal for the approval of a second tranche of 200 million dollars loan out of the 600 million dollars World Bank loan which the government intends to use part of to finance the project.

He said he could not give a date of completion as it is tied to so many things, including challenges that were observable and “those that are not very observable but surface on the field and have to be solved.”

He said that contrary to insinuations in certain quarters that works on the road had stopped, a lot of work is actually going on, adding that what “is going on now is a soil replacement process as shown by the observed heaps of sand because the soil in the area has become unsuitable having been used as a refuse dump over the years.

“There is also a pipe network just as there is a need to take care of a gas pipeline and the relocation of all the electricity cables. The construction workers cannot just go in and remove PHCN cable without getting the PHCN involved.

“We are at the stage where we are relocating facilities. That is why to the uninformed, it would appear as if we have stopped work. We have not stopped work, relocation of those facilities is going on,” he stated.

Fashola also said the issue of relocation of affected residents was also on going as compensation was being given to people who have had to give up their properties so that the work could be done.

“So, be very sure that casting and preparation of all the concrete is going on behind the scene. By the time we finish the relocation and the contractor moves to positioning the things, it would be quicker than you think and you would think it happened overnight,” he stated.

On the Okota Road expansion, Fashola stated that the community had outgrown the road and that there was a need to expand it, saying this explained the need to increase infrastructure investment.

He said that the population had grown many times past where the government did not build infrastructure to support the road, stressing that as government moved to address that deficit the population has not stopped growing.

“So, we are trying to expand Okota Road and some of the properties needed to give way. Everybody wants a good road but no one wants it to pass through his house. So, some of the tenements took us to court and I think we have settled out of court now and we have to pay compensation,” he said.

On the Light Rail Project, Fashola said the first phase of the project would be ready in June, while work on the rail would continue to Okokomaiko even as the expansion of the Lagos-Badagry expressway continues.

“You know we have the two projects linked together, the road expansion and the Light Rail simultaneously.”

And now we are trying to see how we can take the rail from the National Theatre to Marina. Hopefully, when that is done, we can heave a sigh of relief. Though there is still work to be done, so far so good.

“This is what we do with the money which we borrow; we do not borrow money to pay salaries, we don’t borrow money to run our overhead. We are investing it in infrastructure. This is the type of transportation that I dream for this country; this is the type of transportation that I dream for this state and not mass transportation by motorcycles,” he stated.

He noted that China opened what is, perhaps, the fastest high speed rail in the world that covered about 300 kilometres per hour, stressing that, “why can’t that happen here? It is really no rocket science, if we can’t invent it, we can buy it and that is what we are doing. We are buying facilities to have it installed here.” The governor urged residents of Iganmu not dump refuse along the road, saying that there was need to keep the surroundings of the project clear of refuse, adding that “you should take ownership of the project”

Projects inspected by the governor during the tour are the Iganmu, Alaba and Mile 2 Light Rail Stations, on-going projects at the Lagos State University (LASU), Maternal and Child Care Centre, FESTAC, Okota-Ago Palace Road, Ejigbo-Ajao Link Bridge, network of roads around Jimoh Ajao Street, Igando HOMS and Resettlement Relief Camp, Igando, on-going projects at Alimosho General Hospital (School of Nursing and Hostel among others) and Samuel Jinadu Street at Markaz area of Orile Agege, among others.

—Kazeem Ugbodaga

FEC awards contract for Lagos-Badagry Expressway


oluwakemi
24 October 2018


The Federal Executive Committee on Wednesday awarded a contract for the repair of the Lagos Badagry Expressway.

This was revealed in a tweet on the Government of Nigeria Twitter handle, @Asorock. It was revealed that the contract would be focused on the 46 kilometres stretch of the road from Agbara-Badagry-Seme Border.

While the repair of the section from Eric Moore to Okokomaiko is being carried out by the Lagos State Government.

omonnakoda:
You are quoting yourself to me?

Does that make sense> You quote some vague and meaningless nonsense to me as evidence of what? What does "FIX" mean exactly
Were we all not here when Fashola was governor to witness all the noise they made about that road and when they would complete it? Were all the grand claims not made publicly. They made us believe it was a Lagos State project.

We were told about a 10 lane motorway and all the announcements were from Lagos State.
I do not recall Fashola's predecessor as Minister of Works making any promises on that road. It was all Lagos State

Guy please if you do not have anything objective just stay on your lane.

Why Lagos-Badagry expressway is yet to be fixed – Fashola


Mr Fashola said the Lagos-Badagry expressway had not been forgotten.

By Agency Report April 4, 2021


The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has assured that the ongoing Lagos-Badagry Expressway rehabilitation/reconstruction project was not forgotten but on the 2021 Sukuk funding priority list.

Mr Fashola gave the assurance in Lagos on Saturday during an inspection tour of road projects in the state.

He said that major drainage works were ongoing and progressing to upgrade the highway from its old status to ensure durable construction, saying that funding challenges were being resolved.

“Lagos-Badagry Expressway is the real challenge. Again it is funding.

“We are owing the contractor. That is why I said if we can expand the Sukuk this year, we are going to look at a few more roads to add into it.

“If we succeed Lagos-Badagry Expressway is one of the top roads we are pencilling down for the Sukuk in 2021.

“If that happens, then the contractor will do his work but I think it is important to help us communicate to the people who use that axis that they are not forgotten.

“Work has started. There was a time when there was no contractor there, so, there is now a contractor,’’ Mr Fashola said.

According to him, that is the first step to progress to show that they are not forgotten.


He said the road was now a superhighway due to development on the axis, hence the diligence to ensure quality durable construction with adequate drainage channels.

Speaking on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, the minister said that about 85km had been completed out of the 127km project being funded by the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund.

Commenting on the Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Expressway, he explained that the highway was recording accelerated construction because of the Sukuk funding. (NAN)

Lagoon0:
nap2u there is a valid point here. Fashola complained about about lack of funding to this project tho.

But the project was not a priority after he left if not, how many century will it take Lagos government to complete the road to just okokomaiko ?

Ten lane to okomaiko shouldn't be a rocket science for Lagos government. That's part of my reason I don't like ambode's tenure,
But I love his light up Lagos idea of which iv not seen sanwo-olu following that path.

Sanwo-olu is not doing much at all, I only see over hyped list of his project.
Some path of the ten lane are going bad due to unfinished abandoned work. Very BaD