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Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to be completed in December – FG

by Alice Babalola
Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

The Federal Government has said the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway rehabilitation and reconstruction project will be completed and totally open to traffic in December.

The Nigeria’s Coordinating Director, Highway Construction and Rehabilitation, Funsho Adebiyi disclosed this during an inspection tour of the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan Expressway rehabilitation and reconstruction project.

Adebiyi said the dual carriageway would be completed, adding that the bridges would also be completed in April 2022.

Recall that Adedamola Kuti, the Director, Federal Highways, South-west had said that by December the entire carriageway would be completed.

Kuti said that the project had reached 49.6 per cent completion on the first section being handled by Julius Berger and 56.8 per cent on the section handled by RCC.

“Section one is 49.6 per cent completed, section two is 56.8 per cent, so, we are making progress.

Our plan is that by the end of this year, the entire stretch of the road will be available, the pavement, carriageway will be completed but you have the interchanges before the end of April next year,” he said.

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