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Coastal Roads Have Potential To Enhance Value of Nigerian Currency-Umahi 

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Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has said that coastal roads are going to be constructed with concrete pavements, saying that this means that there is foreign investment that will come in and that the foreign investment will strengthen and stabilise the naira.
“I’m very happy that the President has directed me to begin the design of one of the spurs linking to this coastal routes and that is the Sokoto-Badagry which was conceived by the President Shagari administration.
“It’s going to connect the ongoing routes, Lagos-Badagry routes that is being done by the federal government and state government.
“There is also another route which is the Enugu-Abakaliki-Ogoja-Cameroun-African Trans-Sahara routes. The coastal routes is also going to connect.
“The Sokoto-Badagry is 1,000 kilometre from the spur of the Trans-Saharan trade routes down to Apo in Abuja is 461 kilometre.
“It means that anyone that is travelling from Sokoto to Lagos will do it in about 10 hours and travelling from South-East to Abuja, will do it in a maximum of about five hours.
“These are the benefits of the coastal routes,” he said in an interview, adding that the government is passionate about building durable roads.
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