FG approves the financing of the Ibadan Express way

The Federal Government has approved N64.108 billion for additional work on 43 kilometres’ part of section one of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
This was made known by the Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, during a chat with reporters after about some hours’ Federal Executive Council meeting with President Muhammadu Buhari as the chairman in Abuja.
Fashola, also said it was part of the N68.6 billion approved for roads projects.
The new approval, Fashola said, is to accommodate the changing factors occurring on the project and to solidify the road to withstand heavy vehicles.
Fashola said: "this covers Glover leaves, pedestrian bridges, toll plazas for that section so as to accommodate changing nature of that road since conception.
“So many new structures, religious institutions, factories, universities and increased human activities that have come up along that road.
“The inherited design didn’t provide for all these at all. The second section under RCC about 80 kilometres will come to council to incorporate similar works, including drainage works etc, when we finish procurement,” the minister said.

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