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Tinubu flags off 65km A’Ibom section of Lagos-Calabar coastal highway

….as Governor Eno says president must do two terms in office


April 15, 2025


President Bola Tinubu on Tuesday flagged off the 65km three-lane dual carriage way of Lagos-Calabar Coastal highway in Nsit Atai local government area of Akwa Ibom state.

In his remarks, Tinubu underscored the importance of the project, saying when completed the road will bring economic development to Akwa Ibom and foster national unity and integration.

The President, who was represented by Governor Umo Eno, explained that the project was one of the key components of the Renewed Hope Agenda of his administration.

Tinubu said, “I want to say that great leaders think big and shy away from playing politics with projects that have enduring value.

“I agree with you that if you want to build the economy, build roads and roads. Road infrastructure is key catalyst for the growth and development of any Nation. It creates ease of movement of goods of services.

“It stimulates interstate movement and improves the quality of lives of the people. This is my vision for the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway.

“Now we are in three A and B respectively which links Akwa Ibom and Cross River. The economic benefits it will bring to the people of these two states are enormous”,

Speaking in his capacity, Eno commended Tinubu for including Akwa Ibom as one of the benefiting states of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway, added that his administration will support the project to successful completion.

The governor, who described Tinubu as a de-tribalized leader, assured that the President deserves to complete his eight years in office to enable him complete the good works he has started.

“I want to thank Mr President for approving and embarking on this audacious project that is bound to unleash and expand our economic horizon and open up our hitherto unreacheable parts of our nation for easy movement of goods and services.

“I want to express the sentiments of the people of Akwa Ibom state for allowing the project pass through here. It could have gone elsewhere so it is not a right and we don’t take it for granted.

“I thank Mr President for thinking well for people particularly those of us in the coastal areas of this country so as to be able to move our goods and services to urban communities and urban centres.

Eno said Tinubu must be supported to serve his eight years in office for him to complete the good works he has started.

“Let me end by assuring our people loving President who will complete eight years because we are going to stand by him and this is the truth. He cannot start this work and abandon it. Somebody else may not finish it.

“The Bible says who is this mountain that is standing before Zerubabel, the hand that has started doing this work, the hand will complete it.

“Our prayer is to pray for Mr President to have good health to complete what he has started so that it will not be abandoned and so that it will not be like the East-West road”.

Minister of Works, David Umahi called on communities in the state to cooperate with Hitech, the contractor handling the project, failing which the federal government may abandon the road and move elsewhere.

Umahi assured that compensation will be paid after due profiling of those properties have been affected by the road.

https://thenationonlineng.net/tinubu-flags-off-65km-aibom-section-of-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway/

Work has already started on the section. Here is a tweet from 3 days ago


Lord Advocate of Nigeria @OHOgunbiyi

@woye1 surprised work has started at Akwa Ibom section of Lagos to Calabar Highway

https://x.com/OHOgunbiyi/status/1911432237171560882?t=dCx6i0dNRx-wQaeyWcI4Jw&s=19

Osi @osi_suave

I was on the Lekki Ikoyi Link Bridge the other day and remember how fashola was dragged, called names, and even taken to court for that bridge.

But now we all use the bridge and applaud the convenience it has brought.

https://x.com/Osi_Suave/status/1911669280040530348?t=DpFe6enbqmWsdrnxlSzwaw&s=19


Charles Anazodo @chaplinez70

Same as the Lagos-Calabar ongoing construction. Same as the Uyo stadium.

https://x.com/chaplinez70/status/1911767738147647536?t=Jbq4uGWqK50Va-YAGxPCbg&s=19


Abiodun Afolabi @afolabiodun

Many allow their bias; many times, political bias to blind them. They exalt leaders of UAE for building Dubai, but cuss the Nigerian govt for Lagos-Calabar, something that will generate fortune in years to come, like the Link Bridge, like the Eko Atlantic. They call it a waste.

https://x.com/afolabiodun/status/1911834580824539455?t=RMwN9e3XZ3B1oy9QpQ0Zyw&s=19

The Lagos - Calabar Highway is being built in sections simultaneously.

Previous threads


Tinubu Flags Off Lagos-calabar N15trn Highway Project Says ‘it’s My Bragging Day
https://www.nairaland.com/8105311/tinubu-flags-off-lagos-calabar-n15trn


Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway: FG Kicks Off Dredging Of Section 2
https://www.nairaland.com/8392803/lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-fg-kicks

FG Flags Off Cross River Section Of 750km Lagos-Calabar Highway
https://www.nairaland.com/8398767/fg-flags-off-cross-river

FG To Begin Train Track Construction On Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway In 2025
https://www.nairaland.com/8299452/fg-begin-train-track-construction

Construction Of First Flyover For Lagos Calabar Coastal Highway Starts
https://www.nairaland.com/8394402/construction-first-flyover-lagos-calabar


30km Of Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway To Be Ready By May – Umahi
https://www.channelstv.com/2025/04/04/30km-of-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-to-be-ready-by-may-umahi/

The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 700 kilometer project under development that is planned to run from Victoria Island, Lagos to Calabar, Cross River State. The highway will pass through Ogun State, Ondo State, Delta State, Bayelsa State, Rivers State, and Akwa Ibom State, before ending in Calabar. The project is intended to connect the western and south-eastern regions of Nigeria, and to improve cross-country connectivity and trade relations.

Connections

There will be a highway from Badagry to Sokoto. It will be connected to the Lagos - Calabar Highway via an undersea tunnel.

There will also be a highway from Calabar through Ebonyi to Abuja.


Video of the flagging off of the Cross River section.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bxxnIDQqWk?si=g5KuY_uvChyfwJkL

This Umahi is just deceiving himself

Video of the completed sections of the highway (in Lagos State).

This video was uploaded 5 days ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npCRKFUgoKc?si=d18rRYh4IDHXqE7x

“Let me end by assuring our people loving President who will complete eight years because we are going to stand by him and this is the truth. He cannot start this work and abandon it. Somebody else may not finish it"- PDP Gov of Akwa Ibom

God Bless President Bola Tinubu
Cross Rivers Yesterday
Akwa Ibom Today
Rivers Tomorrow


The best President ever in the history of Nigeria

Hehehe.

The looting continues.

Hoping to see the attendant turnaround in the economic and social lives of the people and Nigerians in general

This road project was a masterstroke by Tinubu. The opposition recognizes this fact, that’s why there was so much uproar and condemnations, especially from Mr gbajue and his people.

They know that apart from the great economic significance of the project, it has the potential to tilt the balance of political alignment, and that’s the real reason why they’re in so much pains and anguish anytime progress reports about the road project hits the frontpage

Kissthetruth

Where are the hunger flat heads people to come and tell us it’s food that we need not highway??

shivisee:
Where are the hunger flat head people to come and tell us it’s food that we need not highway??

They are already here
See one specimen here

crossfm:
Hehehe.
The looting continues.

But when they were building 2nd Niger bridge for you, it wasn't a looting project. You Igbo Obidients should keep making a fool of yourself.

To some it's a waste of resources
but will glorify it to high heavens if it's been executed in a foreign state
I don't have to be Tinubu supporter before I can appreciate a project with enormous economic potential that will be beneficial for the Nigeria coastal cities and beyond.

crossfm:
Hehehe.

The looting continues.

It is not a must to comment.
Normally just read and move on
Your opinion doesn't matter in this project.

Foluk13:
This Umahi is just deceiving himself

Na so
The day you decide to pass that road, trailer will sweep you off it.

It is your scattered brown teeth your family will use to recognise you.

Good news for us

KennethOkonkwo:
IPOB terrorists issue with the project is that it is happening under TINUBU that they love to hate

Also,they never hated TINUBU untill he spear headed the end to the IPOB dominated government of GEJ


The hate reached the l

Obidients hate that project for 3 reasons.

1. The fact that Tinubu is actually completing this project, against the predictions of Peter Obi, Moghalu's wife and other Igbo bigots ;

2. The fact that it is an Ebonyi man doing it and getting the glory. Igbos discriminate against Ebonyi people ;

3. The fact that it benefits the SS. They know that this project gives Tinubu massive credibility in the SS.

while lagos benin has multiple pothole wholes as deep as 1 to 4ft and no one is talking about it because you can't make money from existing roads like you do on new roads

Anybody wey wan die, make e die, JAGABAN is on a mission

Hotfreezing:
They are already here
See one specimen here


But when they were building 2nd Niger bridge for you, it wasn't a looting project. You Igbo Obidients should keep making a fool of yourself.

True Igbos don’t use that bridge built by their enemies, Buhari and Fashola who once deported them from Lagos. True Igbos will rather swim across the Niger than use that bridge

This is a great development for Akwa Ibom people.

The Tinubu administration has shown commitment to road infrastructure and this is just one of the many projects that will come to fruition.

Ok

Salewa97:
This is a great development for Akwa Ibom people.

The Tinubu administration has shown commitment to road infrastructure and this is just one of the many projects that will come to fruition.

You will not be unfortunate in life

Nice

Everybody had their chance. Let's evaluate them one by one:

(1) One was vice president. He was also head of the economic management team. They spent $12billion to buy debt forgiveness as if we didn't have things to do with such money. They spent another $16billion on voodoo power sector reforms, including paying some contractors 100% upfront who disappeared with the funds. The privatization they spearheaded ended in controversy as assets were allegedly sold to cronies. Today, they present a messianic posture of saviour of Nigeria.

(2) Another was governor. His greatest achievement was saving state money in a bank he was chairman. He didn't think of any innovative investments to plough money to. The ones he made were said to be worthless by a successor. He also claimed frugality, like personally paying for fuel, wearing one shoe for 17 years, sitting in front of his car, and eliminating the killing of one cow daily in government house. Did the state move forward during his time? Did he turn his state to the center of consumption to production? What is his state producing today? Now, he is posturing as the messiah with the solutions to everything.

(3) Then there is the one who is called the devil, drug dealer, criminal, certificate forger and all. During his time, he took on bold reforms including ramping up IGR for his state, decentralizing administration by setting up local councils development areas, setting up agencies like LASAMBUS (changed emergency health response), LAMATA and LAGBUS (which changed the transportation landscape of his state), LASAA (which transformed outdoor advertising), RRS (changed security architecture), reformed LAWMA for efficient waste collection. All these he did while being opposed by the dictator at the center. The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was mooted for more than 60 years, including a groundbreaking done by former President Buhari in 2015. But this guy came, killed the noise and got trucks to do the work despite the opposition by those who lost elections to him, including Arise News who pulled all strings to kill the project. Guess the cost of the project. $12billion! If some people had been visionary, the road would have been completed by now. Despite the opposition to his reforms, he was the only governor in his region who could not be swept by the rigging tsunami. Here was a man who could not be defeated by a sitting president in 2003. Same man stood against a sitting vice president, senate president, former mentees, party leadership...and floored all of them. He is the one some politicians are planning against as sitting president. By 2027, his projects will determine the referendum on his leadership. So far, he has done well int ha regard. Get the economy right, and some politicians will retire by 2027.

So among the unifier, the messiah and the devil, who would you prefer? I prefer a competent devil to an incompetent and visionless unifer and messiah.

naptu2:
Video of the completed sections of the highway (in Lagos State).

This video was uploaded 5 days ago.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npCRKFUgoKc?si=d18rRYh4IDHXqE7x

Say JAGABAN.

The East - West road that the PDP thieves lead by Obasanjo, Atiku and Goatluck Jonathan has become a spiritual road that has no end

Foluk13:
This Umahi is just deceiving himself

how and why

Foluk13:
This Umahi is just deceiving himself

No cry, no cry, no cry

Good one.