PODE (Issue 22): Highway Projects

Federal Capital Spending (2015 v 2016)

  • Amount Budgeted in 2015: 20.64 billion naira
  • Amount Released in 2015: 12.58 billion naira
  • Amount Budgeted in 2016: 251.22 billion naira
  • Amount Released So Far in 2016: 124.81 billion naira

Selected Ongoing Road Projects across Nigeria (to which Contractors have been re-mobilized in recent months)

  • Loko-Oweto Bridge across River Benue, in Benue and Nasarawa States (North Central)
  • Ilorin-Jebba Road (North Central)
  • Dualization of Kano-Katsina Road (Northwest)
  • Sokoto-Tambuwal-Makera-Kontagora Road (Northwest)
  • Dualization of Kano-Maiduguri Road Section IV (Northeast)
  • Sagamu-Ibadan and Sagamu-Lagos Expressway (Southwest)
  • Dualization of Ikot Ekpene Border-Aba-Owerri Road (South South/Southeast)
  • Oji-Achi-Obeagu-Mmaku-Awgu-Ndeaboh-Mpu-Okpanku Road (Southeast)
  • Abriba–Arochukwu–Ohafia Road (Southeast)
  • Port Harcourt-Aba Road (Southeast)
  • Outstanding Sections of Benin-Ofosu-Ore-Ajebandele-Sagamu Expressway Phase III (Southwest/South South)

Policy source: Aso Villa Newsletter