Many times when projects are announced in Nigeria people often make a lot of fuss as to the cost relative to the perceived small scope of the project.

Casebin point was a thread on Nairaland a few months ago with respect to Lagos State Governor announcing construction of the 8.7km regional road. Although the cost wasn't announced, a lot of the comments suggested that the road shouldn't be up to N1bln since its only 8.7km!

However attached shows that the city of Houston is adding 5.9miles (9.4km) of a single lane on either side of an existing 2lane highway for $85mln, which is N48bln!!

This just goes to show that there is a lot of difference between building a project extension to something existing in a built up area compared to a virgin road in the middle of nowhere. The $85mln might build 20miles of highway it if was in the Bush..