Nigeria: Closing Ranks for Lagos Airport Road

28 March 2017

For those who have wondered why the road linking the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) and the rest of Lagos through Oshodi remains derelict in spite of Lagos State and the Federal Government coming under the same ruling party for the first time ever, the recent exchange of accusations and counter-accusations between Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos and Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), is an eye-opener.

At a media parley, Governor Ambode lamented that efforts of his government to transform the road (which is unarguably the nation's foremost gateway) into a ten-lane artery to give the nation's image a facelift, is being "frustrated" by the Works Ministry, headed by his predecessor and Lagos representative in the Federal cabinet, Fashola.

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