The Federal Government has renamed the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway.
Umahi announced the development on Thursday during a media briefing in Abuja, where he also disclosed that the President had approved a 400-kilometre extension of the Fourth Legacy Highway and the reconstruction of sections of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway.
According to the minister, the Ministry of Works approved the renaming of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway after consultations with its leadership.
“That highway is named the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway. By the powers conferred on me as Minister of Works, in consultation with my Permanent Secretary, the Minister of State, directors, and staff of the ministry, we decided to name it after him because of his dream for it.
“He had that dream about 27 years back as governor of Lagos State. It is one thing to dream and another thing to have the grace of God to actualise that dream,” Umahi said.
The minister described the first section of the 750-kilometre coastal highway, stretching from Victoria Island to Lekki, as a landmark infrastructure project.
He said the 47.47-kilometre six-lane carriageway features a 25-metre-wide median reserved for a future railway line.
Umahi also announced that President Tinubu had approved an additional 400 kilometres for the Fourth Legacy Highway, extending the project from about 700 kilometres to 1,100 kilometres.
According to him, the highway, originally designed to connect Akwanga in Nasarawa State to Maiduguri in Borno State through Jos, Bauchi, Gombe, and Biu, will now extend into Taraba State.
“The greatest story is that yesterday President Bola Tinubu approved the addition of 400 kilometres to our Fourth Legacy Road. That is an 800-kilometre road now extended to 1,100 kilometres, and that is unprecedented,” he said.
Umahi further disclosed that the President had approved the dualisation of another 400 kilometres of the East-West Road, the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway using reinforced concrete pavement, the completion of the abandoned Ibi Bridge in Taraba State, and the construction of the 5.76-kilometre Lao Bridge.
He said the projects are part of the Federal Government’s efforts to improve road connectivity, stimulate economic growth and modernise critical transport infrastructure across the country.
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