Calabar — Nigeria may lose about $1 billion (over N300 billion) grant from the United Nations Programme on Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (UN-REDD) and others if the proposed 260-kilometre super highway project of Cross River State is executed .
The planned construction, environmentalists feared would destroy virgin vegetation and forest along the road route.
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