The Lagos-Calabar Coastal road is expected to be completed in eight years.
Commuters in Lagos may have cause to smile this festive season as the Federal Government on Friday temporarily opened Section 1 of the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway.
The section measures 47 kilometres and stretches from the Ahmadu Bello Way junction to Eleko village junction.
Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, announced the opening of the section at an event attended by government officials, traditional rulers, and other key stakeholders.
He told the gathering in Lagos that the opening of the highway will bring ease to commuters and is expected to end the harrowing driving experience for road users in the Lekki-Ajah corridor.
With Section 1 of the mega road project now opened to traffic, Umahi said the Federal Government has fulfilled a promise to the people.
A cross-section of attendees at the reopening of the Coastal Road on 12 December, 2025.
The former governor of Ebonyi State said April 2026 has been set aside to complete Section 1.
The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a project expected to run through nine coastal states across the country.
It will start in Lagos and terminate in Cross River. The mega road project will also pass through Edo, Delta, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Ondo, Bayelsa, and Ogun states.
A cross-section of some traditional rulers and other stakeholders during the reopening of the Coastal Road on 12 December, 2025.
The Lagos-Calabar coastal highway has a projected full length of about 700km.
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved the construction of the coastal road in February 2024. Construction work began on the Lagos axis of the road the following month.
Two months later, specifically in May 2024, President Bola Tinubu flagged off the multimillion-naira project, which will cost N4 billion per kilometre.
