As part of activities marking the second anniversary of President Bola Tinubu’s administration, the Federal Capital Territory Administration has scheduled a 19-day project inauguration exercise to begin on June 10, 2025.
This decision was reached during the 14th Executive Committee meeting of the FCTA, chaired by the FCT Minister, Nyesom Wike.
According to a statement released by the Minister’s Senior Special Assistant on Public Communications and Social Media, Lere Olayinka, some of the projects scheduled for commissioning are: the newly renovated Abuja International Conference Centre, Bus Terminals in Kugbo and Mabushi, as well as Apo-Wassa road.
‘Others are N16 interchange and roads to connect Maitama through Katampe to Jahi, Inner Northern Expressway from Ring Road 3 (Idu to Kubwa Road), CN8 from N5 (Obafemi Awolowo Way) to Court of Appeal, N20 Flyover Onnex Kubwa Road, and Life Junction to Ring Road III.
‘Also to be commissioned are Kabulsa-Takushara Access Road, Kabusa-Ketti Access Road, access road in Giri District,15km Road from A2 Junction Abuja-Lokoja Road to Pai in Kwali Area Council, as well as the Ushafa, War College, and Army Checkpoint roads in Bwari Area Council’, he added.
He also said the FCT Executive Committee approved the award of a contract for the upgrade of streetlights on Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway (Ring Road I).
The Acting Executive Secretary, Federal Capital Development Authority, Richard Dauda, said that the project was among the seven approved memos submitted by the FCDA for consideration.
He explained that the project involves the upgrade of the obsolete streetlights on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Expressway, a 14-kilometre 10-lane expressway from Maitama to Gudu.
‘If you pass there in the night, you will realise that most parts of the road are in darkness. The streetlights have been there for close to 15 years now.
‘The project was completed between 2005 and 2006, and the lights have become obsolete and no longer bright enough to light the road’, he said.
He said that the upgrade became necessary following the availability of new technology in street lighting.
He added that a hybrid street lighting system would be deployed to brighten the road and make it more secure and motorable at night.
