Works Minister David Umahi is defending a proposed diversion of the Lagos–Calabar Coastal Highway through Ondo after difficult terrain and deep pits complicated the original route.
How does a project of this scale reach this stage without the fundamental engineering and cost questions are resolved?
I have questioned the rationale for an estimated ₦15 trillion coastal highway while vital gateway roads—including the East–West Road—remain in deplorable condition.
It’s a project I’ve consistently referred to as “A coastal road to nowhere”.
The optics are troubling: an ambitious Atlantic corridor advances while other essential highways deteriorate.
Some may suspect deception by the Tinubu administration.
A project designed to elevate Lagos’s coastal corridor at the expense of wider national priorities.
Now, route changes and fresh cost questions are fuelling concerns about whether feasibility studies and value-for-money assessments were sufficiently rigorous. Critics deserve answers, not assurances.
My question remains: did Nigeria properly evaluate this project before committing such enormous public resources, or are taxpayers now funding the consequences of inadequate planning?
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