The murky coastal highway project

The opaqueness and flip-flops surrounding the 750-kilometre Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway have deepened. On October 12, 2026, Minister of Works David Umahi announced that the highway would be rerouted inland after passing through Lagos and Ogun states, through Edo State, to join the long-neglected East-West Road. He described the detour as “a wonderful engineering decision by […]