February 21, 2017

Fashola Inspects On-going Projects In South East Zone

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On-going road projects inspected in the South South during the three-day inspection by Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola include (please note that this is not a full list of all the road projects being undertaken in the Niger Delta; it is only a list of the ones Minister Fashola visited on his tour, from 16 – 18 February, 2017):

CROSS RIVER
Calabar-Ikom-Ogoja Road (Sections 1 and 2)
Calabar-Akamkpa Road and Akamkpa-Alesi-Ugep (Iyamoyong) Road
Calabar-Ugep-Katsina-Ala Road
Calabar-Odukpani Junction Road

ABIA/AKWA IBOM
Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road
Ikot-Ekpene-Aba-Port Harcourt Road
Section 4 of the Enugu-Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway

RIVERS
Bodo-Bonny road with Bridges across Afa, Opobo and Nanabie Creeks

DELTA
Warri-Sapele Expressway (repairs)
Sapele-Ewu Road (Section 1 – Sapele-Agbor)

EDO
Dualisation of Lokoja-Benin road (Section IV – Ehor-Benin City)

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