FG Names Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road After Tinubu

The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway has been renamed as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway. The announcement was made by the  Minister of Works, David Umahi, on Thursday during a media briefing in Abuja, where he also disclosed that President Bola Tinubu 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 decision to rename the coastal highway was taken by the Ministry of Works after consultations with the ministry’s leadership.

“That (coastal) highway is named 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,” he said.