₦airaland Forum

Minister of Works Engr. David Umahi has disclosed that the North-West geopolitical zone has the highest number of projects under President Bola Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda, securing 48 out of the 260 special intervention projects being executed nationwide.

This was revealed yesterday in Kano during an inspection of ongoing and completed federal road projects by the minister who was represented by the senior special assistant to the president on community engagement, Abdullahi Tanko-Yakasai.

Tanko-Yakasai said the intervention projects, spread across Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Sokoto, Kebbi, Zamfara and Kaduna states, underscored the president’s commitment to address infrastructure gaps and drive economic growth in the region.

He spoke at the site of the Economic City, Bichi, where the federal government completed Phase I and II of a 1.5-kilometre access road awarded in January 2024 and delivered in October 2024. The project, he noted, was executed as a special intervention to enhance economic activities within the industrial city.

The minister’s representative also inspected the Kano Northern Bypass, a 37.8-kilometre dual carriageway project being constructed by CCECC.

According to project engineers, the bypass—designed with multiple bridges—will divert traffic away from Kano metropolis, improve regional connectivity and significantly reduce travel time between the North-East, North-West and North-Central zones.

Tanko-Yakasai further disclosed that the road projects were being built with reinforced concrete shoulders and medians to guarantee durability of up to 50 years.

The Senior Special Assistant to President Bola Tinubu on Community Engagement (North-West), Abdullahi Tanko-Yakasai, stated this in Gusau, Zamfara State capital, on Tuesday, when he led the national media tour team for an inspection of the Zaria-Gusau-Sokoto dual carriage way project.

The national media tour team comprised the director of information and public relations at the Federal Ministry of Works, Muhammed Ahmad, and representatives from national media houses.

The team also comprised Bukola Odeyemi, the Senior Special Assistant to the Works Minister, Dave Umahi, and other officials of the Federal Ministry of Works.

The media tour team inaugurated an emergency road repair project in the Gidana Dawa area and an access road to the federal secretariat in Gusau, the Zamfara capital.

Mr Tanko-Yakasai said the dualisation of the Zaria-Gusau-Sokoto highway, which spans Kaduna, Katsina, Zamfara, and Sokoto States, by the Tinubu administration would boost the region’s economic growth.

He added that the road project was of strategic importance to economic growth, trade, and security in the North-West.

“President Tinubu is passionate toward ensuring massive infrastructural development in all parts of the country, particularly the North-West.

“We really appreciate Mr President for executing these projects in our region,” he explained.

He commended the contractors handling the projects and urged them to comply with all contractual agreements and ensure a speedy and quality job.

Mr Tanko-Yakasai added that Mr Tinubu deserves the support of the people of the North-West by executing legacy projects that would guarantee the region for hundreds of years.

Responding, the controller of the Federal Ministry of Works in charge of Zamfara, Kasimu Yusuf, described the visit as a welcome development.

Mr Yusuf said the contract for the dualisation of 372 kilometres of the Zaria-Gusau-Sokoto highway was awarded by the federal government in 2023, with a 48-month duration.

He said the contact was categorised into four sections, saying, “Section one covers Zaria in Kaduna State to Sheme in Katsina State, while section two covers Sheme in Katsina State to Gusau in Zamfara.

“Section three covers Gusau to Colony–Talata Mafara in Zamfara, while section four covers Talata Mafara, Zamfara, to Sokoto.

“The 86.1 kilometres of the section two segment of the project have achieved 52 per cent completion, while the 93.7 kilometres of section three have achieved 14 per cent completion.”

According to him, the contractors handling the project are executing a quality job and working in line with the contractual agreement with the Federal Government.

iwaeda:
They are all deceiving Tinubu.

KingGBsky:
What has tinubu done that has renewed the hope of anyone talking about more of the whole of North west where poverty abounds. Schools in the northwest are the worst and insecurity is the venture of the day. So what useless hope of lies are they talking about?

Drsnives:
Road road road road road road Na road we go chop

Depriest2020:
When it comes to road project, president Tinubu scores A1✓

RollinTNDA:
Normally Tinubu no send South West

When you have the whole of SW in your palms
Na Geographical See Finish be that

If Tinubu mess loud mess
South west people go inhale am with full chest
Tell am say it smells nice.

If you be Tinubu, shey you go take those kind people serious??

ednut1:
If Tinubu no win 2027. Umahi will be scapegoat

Omenlon:
go find work, no free food for anyone.

Maybe you forget na people dey work for those construction companies and na the roads dey make their families dey chop, so check your reasoning faculty, one nut fit dey miss

Omenlon:
tinubu winning no be debate, na the margin people dey wait for.

Omenlon:
go find work, no free food for anyone. Maybe you forget na people dey work for those construction companies and na the roads dey make their families dey chop, so check your reasoning faculty, one nut fit dey miss

Tenses:
Oga sw has only one state which is lagos and tinubu concentrated over 90% of the entire projects in lagos.

Drsnives:
Oga everyday I always come back exhausted cos I run 3 jobs.. I no dea touch one side money that Na savings
I plan to do away with one cos of stress, just incase you need am you fit Hala me

anonimi:
You are the one who has to check your own reasoning faculty for the missing nut.

Tinubu and APC have failed so badly in creating the millions of jobs promised that they are hiding worsening unemployment rates, despite revising the data analysis used to determine it.

KingGBsky:
What has tinubu done that has renewed the hope of anyone talking about more of the whole of North west where poverty abounds. Schools in the northwest are the worst and insecurity is the venture of the day. So what useless hope of lies are they talking about?

KingGBsky:
What has tinubu done that has renewed the hope of anyone talking about more of the whole of North west where poverty abounds. Schools in the northwest are the worst and insecurity is the venture of the day. So what useless hope of lies are they talking about?

Julius1995:
He has renewed the hope of his cronies and criminal politicians. Because even his imbecilic supporters here on Nairaland are reeling in hopelessness.