Nigeria: Cross River Highway Project Threatens Over N300 Billion Donor Funds to Nigeria

4 October 2016

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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