The 1028-km Abidjan-Lagos highway project is expected to get underway in January 2024, with procurement for the primary construction and real building work. This is according to a hint from the Economic Community of West African States Commission.
In order to accomplish this, the commission has started a validation workshop in anticipation of starting the project that would connect important cities.
The project implementation Unit of the commission’s Spatial Development Initiative organized the workshop that took place in Lagos in order to exchange ideas and thoroughly evaluate the physical, economic, and social facets of the highway project.
Ebere Izunobi, the chairman of the Spatial Development Initiative, revealed that specialists from five of its members, including Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, the Benin Republic, and Cote D’Ivoire, had been called in to discuss the initiative intended to improve the lives of those living along that corridor.
He revealed that the “Abidjan-Lagos Corridor Highway” project, with a length of roughly 1028 km, connects important cities and passes through a region with significant economic potential. The proposal was debated and authorized at the Heads of State.
Izunobi reaffirmed SDI’s commitment to collaborating with individual nations to make sure that countries along that corridor launch development initiatives including port services along the coast, company construction, raw material evacuation, and importation of goods and services, among others.
The Abidjan-Lagos highway corridor is a crucial socioeconomic link in the ECOWAS region of the trans-African road and motorway network, according to Ashoke Maliki, head of Road and Railways at the ECOWAS Commission.
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