📋 Tender Overview
Scope :
Construction of 1,000km Sokoto-Badagry expressway, which will run from Sokoto in the country’s northwest to the Badagry area of Lagos in the south. The Sokoto-Badagry expressway has been designated a priority project under the recently established Renewed Hope Infrastructure Development Fund (RHIDF), intended to facilitate infrastructure development in Nigeria. The expressway will connect 12 states including Lagos, Ogun, Oyo, Kwara, Niger, Kebbi and Sokoto, as well as provide cross-border connectivity to Benin, Togo and Niger. The route is expected to connect the Lagos port complex in Apapa and the Seme land border with Benin as well as the Agbara Industrial Estate in Ogun state. The Sokoto-Badagry expressway also comprises the Nigerian section of the Trans-West coastal highway scheme, which aims to link 12 African coastal nations from Mauritania to Nigeria, along with feeder roads to two landlocked countries, Mali and Burkina Faso. The Trans-West highway will mostly follow the coastline along more than 4,000km and connect the capitals of the countries involved. Construction of the Sokoto-Badagry expressway is expected to boost food and agricultural production, connect the country’s rural communities to major urban corridors, and improve cross-border trade.
The scheme was initiated as part of Nigeria’s Fourth National Development Plan, but was abandoned in 1979. In 2009, the federal government in collaboration with the Lagos state government started the reconstruction and expansion of the Lagos-Badagry section of the expressway from six to 10 lanes.
The Lagos-Badagry section has a total length of 60.2km, traversing from Eric Moore in the Surulere local government area to Badagry. Lagos state government is responsible for the 22.1km Eric Moore-Okokomaiko stretch, and according to an early May update, China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has almost completed work on the section.
