Lagos State Given Green Light To Reconstruct Airport Road

The Lagos State Government has been crying to the Federal Government to grant it the permission to reconstruct the roads to leading to the international Airport for a long time. The road is a federal road and therefore cannot worked upon unless given permission. 

So in a press statement signed by  the Secretary to the State Government, yesterday, Wednesday 31st May, Lagos state Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode revealed that the Federal Government has granted permission to the State to give the road a world class reconstruction. starting from Oshodi. 

“The road linking Oshodi to the International Airport, you would all agree with me is a national embarrassment. In the spirit of the regeneration and urbanisation that this administration has set out to achieve, we believe strongly that the image that is exhumed by the decadence of that road must be repaired and we took it upon ourselves to appropriate the 2017 budget that the House of Assembly should approve the total reconstruction of the Airport Road from Oshodi to the International Airport." the Governor said.

He further stated then that the State presently already had a design a design of 10 lanes from Oshodi as well as the funds for the reconstruction of the road. It is likely that the work may commence in two weeks time as the contractor is set to go.