President Bola Tinubu is currently at the start-off point of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Road, presiding over the official flag-off ceremony of the project at the Lagos end in Victoria Island, Lagos.

The project, a 700-kilometre stretching through eight states, terminating in Calabar, the capital of Cross River State, is projected to boost economic growth in Nigeria, especially for the states it passes through.

Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, left President Tinubu and other dignitaries at the site of the project.

At the Coastal Road flag-off, the President had governors, deputy governors, his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, ministers, members of the National Assembly, traditional rulers, and all sorts of dignitaries, most of whom had attended the commissioning of the reconstructed Apapa-Oworonshoki-Ojota Expressway and the Rehabilitated Third Mainland earlier.

The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio was at the commissioning of the reconstructed Apapa-Oworonshoki-Ojota Expressway and the Rehabilitated Third Mainland.

Among those present were the Deputy Speaker, Ben Kalu; Governor of Lagos, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, represented by the Deputy Governor, Femi Amzat; Chairman of the Nigerian Governors’ Forum and Governor of Kwara State, Abdulrahman AbdulRazaq; Hope Uzodinman of Imo; Mai Mala Buni; Dikko Rada of Katsina State; Ahmed Aliyu Sokoto of Sokoto.

Others are governors Dapo Abiodun of Ogun State; Lucky Aiyedatiwa of Ondo; Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Minister of Budget and Economic Planning, Atiku Bagudu; Minister for Special Duties, Zephaniah Jisalo; Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote; members of the National Assembly; members of the Lagos State House of Assembly; members of the Lagos State Executive Council, traditional rulers and other dignitaries.

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