President Bola Tinubu is set to commence work on the much-discussed Abuja-Lagos Super Highway as well as the Lagos-Port Harcourt Coastal Road.

This is contained in the 2024 budget proposal currently being considered by the National Assembly.

The sum of N500 million each was provided for the two road projects. A substantive number of new and ongoing road projects across the six geopolitical zones are also slated to receive the federal government’s attention during the 2024 fiscal year.

One of such new projects includes the construction of Lafia Road and the dualization of the 9th Mile (Enugu) Otukpo-Makurdi (Keffi Phase II) Road Project (Multilateral/Bilateral Project Tied Loan), which was allocated the sum of N94.828bn.

N1.3bn was set aside for the rehabilitation of Shagamu Road in Lagos State. Rehabilitation of the access road to Apapa/Tin can Island Port/NNPC Depot was given a budgetary allocation of N143.5m.

The budget document equally made a provision of N300m for the rehabilitation of Ikorodu/Shagamu road including access road to Mosimi in Lagos State.

For the dualization of Ibadan/Ife-Ilesha Road in Oyo State, the sum of N2.2bn was allocated, while N104m was set aside for the rehabilitation, construction, and expansion of Lagos-Shagamu-Ibadan dual carriageway section I, Lagos State.

Kano-Maiduguri Road Section IV, Potiskum-Damaturu Road got an allocation of N2.1bn.

Dualisation of Aba-Ikot Ekpene road in Abia/ Akwa Ibom States was allocated the sum of N1.410bn, construction of Ikot Ekpene Border-Aba-Owerri dualisation got the sum of N1.01bn.

Rehabilitation of Odukpani Junction, -Akpet central section -Ikom-Ogoja Road in Cross River State got an allocation of N1.1bn.

The rehabilitation of Odukpani-Itu-Ikot Ekpene Road, section I Odukpani-Itu Bridge head, both in Cross River State, received an allocation of N1.5bn.

The rehabilitation of three sections of the Lokoja-Abuja road was allocated a combined total of N6 billion.

The dualization of Suleja-Minna road phase II in Niger State has an allocation of N500 million.

Another new road project that received mention is the construction and asphalt overlay of Suru-Sangelu-Afadama Road, in Kebbi State, for which a sum of N2 billion was budgeted.