All trucks will not have to go through the Eleko Junction. Dangote and the Lagos State Government are building another expressway through the bush from the Magbon and Alade area.

Lekki Free Zone: Construction of Magbon Alade Highway begins in May, says Sanwo-Olu

Posted by News Express | 21 March 2021 |

By FLORENCE ONUEGBU

The construction of Magbon Alade Road, the ancillary road leading to the Free Zones in Ibeju-Lekki would take-off in the next two months, according to Gov. Babajide Sanwo-Olu.

The governor made the remarks on Saturday, during the second day of his working tour of the Free Trade Zone in the Ibeju-Lekki area of Lagos State.

The carriageway extends from Lekki-Epe Expressway into the Free Trade Zone area, covering several kilometres. The rehabilitation of the road is a partnership between the Lagos State Government and Dangote Group.

Sanwo-Olu, alongside members of the State’s Executive Council visited the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemical facilities on Saturday.

“Today, we have taken a five-hour tour of the Dangote Refinery, which is the biggest single refinery in the world, and also visited its fertiliser factory, which is the second largest in the world.

“Between the time I came here in 2019 and now, there has been a huge improvement in the construction and layout of the entire site.

“For us as a government, it is not to fold our arms and be expecting that all is well in this corridor. We are here to encourage the investors and to show them that we are with them,” he said.

The governor said that his administration was in place to serve the people; hence, anything that would ease the way business was done was critical to it.

“We have met and cleared out few issues around approvals, right-of-way and the infrastructure that needs to come on this axis.

“We don’t want a replay of Apapa gridlock here. So, we have agreed and we have planned a timeline for ourselves on the construction of Magbon Alade Highway, which comes to the free zones from Lekki-Epe Expressway,” he said.

Sanwo-Olu said that the state government would be complementing the infrastructure being initiated in the Free Trade Zone with Green Rail Line, which would raise transportation capacity in and out of the corridor.

According to him, the rail will kick off when feasibility study for the project is completed.

He also said that the layout for an airport being developed in the Epe axis was being done, and would prioritise its completion.

“In our master plan for the free zones, there is a Metro Green Line that will come from Lekki. We have done expression of interest already for the metro line.

“We are currently doing feasibility study required for investment on the rail project. We are also looking at the airport project of which we have done the layout. This is also receiving consideration as we speak.

“What is happening in this corridor is big enough to take three days of our time. The development is about jobs for the youth population and catalyst for the local economy.

“Local residents and other Nigerians are being engaged in the refinery and petrochemicals projects. The government is in a position to resolve any issue in order to create enabling environment for businesses to thrive,” Sanwo-Olu said.

The governor said the kind of development being implemented in the free zones was one that created a work-and-live ecosystem.

Meanwhile, the Chairman of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote commended the state government for its support to investors, adding that the refinery and petrochemicals projects were his largest investment worldwide.

Dangote said that Sanwo-Olu’s commitment made the free trade zone to be business-friendly, as the area would become the hub of industrialisation in the country.

“As Mr Governor mentioned, we are eager to start this project. As soon as we have the green light, we will go ahead with the construction before we even sign the Tax Deductible Agreement on Presidential Order 7.

“I have promised the governor that we will start the road in the next two months,” he said.

The Dangote Group Chairman said that the host community had not been neglected in the construction value chain happening in the free zones.

According to him, hundreds of local residents are part of the 20,000 Nigerians being engaged in the projects.

Dangote said the Group had intervened in lifting members of the host community, by donating modern boats for local fishermen, building hospitals, schools and giving deserving students scholarship.

Part of the sections toured by the governor was the Catalytic Distillation Unit of the Dangote refinery, which is the first processing compartment in the refinery to distill crude oil into various hydrocarbon fractions.

The governor’s team also stopped by the Fertiliser Industry and Dangote’s trestles, shoreline jetties, where crude oil will be transferred to the refinery.

Earlier, Sanwo-Olu and his team were at Longrich and Colori Lekki Manufacture in Lekki Free Zone to inspect the processing plant of the Chinese firm. (NAN)

https://newsexpressngr.com/news/119624-Lekki-Free-Zone-Construction-of-Magbon-Alade-Highway-begins-in-May-says-Sanwo-Olu

naptu2:


1) I was responding to Smart Politician who said that they had to build the 4th Mainland Bridge which will go through Ajah otherwise trucks will congest the Lekki Expressway. The junction to Epe is way before Ajah and therefore, trucks will pass through Epe without having to go through Ajah. Or are you trying to insist that trucks will have to pass through Ajah and Abraham Adesanya??

2) The Lagos State Government and the Dangote Group are right now building an expressway through Magbon and Alade. All trucks will not have to go through Eleko Junction.

3) What the hell are you talking about?? Do you think you are the only one that lives in Lekki?? I live in Lekki and I know what I am talking about!

4) Besides, the section from Eleko to Epe T junction has been reconstructed to include a truck lane and provision for the green rail line.

Yes, I had to mention 4th Mainland Bridge because it will help trucks from mainland to easily access the seaport. Unless you are saying that the seaport is not meant for companies on Lagos mainland.

According to LASG, the plan of the 4th Mainland Bridge on that stretch of road is to connect Abraham Adesanya to Langbasa then to Ikorodu. I know these places so well.

Right now, you can get to Ikorodu from Badore in less than 30 minutes via ferries, but the new bridge will help vehicles to ply the route instead of ferries alone or having to go through Ikota, Lekki, VI to 3MB.

Masterito:
Feel free to misbehave.

it is height of naivety to think PO will defeat the likes of Tinubu and Atiku

as in very dumb to believe

ufotty2001:
apart from that I have come to realize that most FG projects are in Lagos... Like Port Harcourt now the only FG project is east west road. Akwa ibom and cross Rivers no project.. the entire south east is 2rd river niger bridge. 70% of states have no FG projects going on there but if you come to Lagos they are thousands of FG projects there.. why is it so?

Name 2.

wwwihy:


But this is a vision of one man and Lagos State Govt. What is your State Govt doing? Don't they have foresight?

LEKKI Free Trade Zone (LFTZ), the much celebrated multi-billion dollars bilateral business venture between Lagos State and the Chinese Investors has kicked off, with President Olusegun Obasanjo describing Governor Bola Tinubu of Lagos State as "a brilliant governor with brilliant ideas".

The LFTZ cited in Ibeju-Lekki local government area of the state, according to its managers, would occupy 1,000 hectares of land employing over 300,000 as workers on completion.

https://allafrica.com/stories/200605120070.html

Alaye,enough of this propaganda..since 1999,you guys have be attributing every success to tinubu...Tinubu own lagos,tinubu that,that...all just to market him for 2023 election...you guys are the real enemies of Nigeria..there is nothing like lagos indigenous..Oyo,Ogun,Osun,Ondo and Ekiti are the core yoruba State in Nigeria..B4 u claim am a lagosians,first list ur State b4 u talk of Lagos..Nobody is claiming lagos is my own...even the irajibi man u are prasing is an indigenous of Osun State.. Nigeria is a divisive democracy...if I want to travel or clear my goods,I will have to go to lagos..why it is so,..all headquarter of multi organisation are base in lagos.....tell me why lagos won't be over crowded..90percents of Nigerians directly or indirectly deal with lagos..if I ask,why it so,u say hold ur State government accountable,4goten it is the decision of the federal government to decentralise lagos....Nigeria is failled Nations..Nairaland is tribal bigot forum,so I don't expect anything good from you...

buckeyemedia:
I’m sure that Murtala Mohammed Airport Ikeja Lagos State is also a vision of Jagaban Borgu?

Nonsense.

My brother

There is no other roads that connect Lekki free zone where the sea port is situated apart from Lekki - Aja-Eleko - Epe route

Ekeko- Epe Road construction is completed
Now they are moving to Abraham Adasenya- Eleko for rehabilitation which is the 2nd phase of the project.

However from Eleko Junction coastal road to the seaport is still a narrow road and bad.

So in the long run, another Apapa saga will eventually surface because don't forget Dangote refinery/ fertiliser also in the same axis

wwwihy:
Vision of Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu coming to reality

you are a great liar, lekki deep seaport is a federal government initiated project & was built by federal government

etrouble:


You can go back to your village where the roads are wide

im lagosian by birth, my parent is lagosian by birth, I'm a typical Yoruba boy. Thank... Goan jump into the lagoon

etrouble:


You can go back to your village where the roads are wide

i ply that route every day so i know what I'm saying.

Ezmans:
you are a great liar, lekki deep seaport is a federal government initiated project & was built by federal government

Seriously? Are you high?

ufotty2001:
apart from that I have come to realize that most FG projects are in Lagos... Like Port Harcourt now the only FG project is east west road. Akwa ibom and cross Rivers no project.. the entire south east is 2rd river niger bridge. 70% of states have no FG projects going on there but if you come to Lagos they are thousands of FG projects there.. why is it so?

You should have listed the fg projects in Lagos.

Okealaaye:
God, why didn't you make Enugu abut to the sea? Tell me, God, do you have to show so much love to the Yoruba while some other places are landlocked? This isn't fair o.

god punished my igbo tribe because we are wicked and descendants of the devil.. . reason why he decided to punish us with landlockness, nutritionless red mud land, and flatheadds

Sweetboilooks:
When Obi wins next year, Lagos will stop cornering the developments that is meant for the SE and SS which are the economic backbones of Nigeria. Onitsha deserves a port more than lagos. Calabar? Onne? Greedy people will cry next year

The people whose vote u hope to win na em u da call greedy people nawa o ,, all this obi people una neva learn

ADBA3005:



This is an eye opener for all the Yoruba omo ales that are supporting Peter Obi: Obi's emergence, simply because of the primordial hatred the ungrateful Igbos have towards the Yorubas, will lead to underdevelopment in the South West!

bros relax no igbo man will rule this country. We will rather the north to rule, than a bloody igbo man

ufotty2001:
apart from that I have come to realize that most FG projects are in Lagos... Like Port Harcourt now the only FG project is east west road. Akwa ibom and cross Rivers no project.. the entire south east is 2rd river niger bridge. 70% of states have no FG projects going on there but if you come to Lagos they are thousands of FG projects there.. why is it so?

Name two FG projects in Lagos in the last 20 years .That is a reasonable challenge
TWO projects TWENTY Years

SmartPolician:


Huncle, leave talk because you probably don't live in Lagos and won't understand what I am talking about.

Either way, I hope to see someone who knows the state, especially the island axis, so well reply my initial message.

naptu2

Anndrew:
Alaye,enough of this propaganda..since 1999,you guys have be attributing every success to tinubu...Tinubu own lagos,tinubu that,that...all just to market him for 2023 election...you guys are the real enemies of Nigeria..there is nothing like lagos indigenous..Oyo,Ogun,Osun,Ondo and Ekiti are the core yoruba State in Nigeria..B4 u claim am a lagosians,first list ur State b4 u talk of Lagos..Nobody is claiming lagos is my own...even the irajibi man u are prasing is an indigenous of Osun State.. Nigeria is a divisive democracy...if I want to travel or clear my goods,I will have to go to lagos..why it is so,..all headquarter of multi organisation are base in lagos.....tell me why lagos won't be over crowded..90percents of Nigerians directly or indirectly deal with lagos..if I ask,why it so,u say hold ur State government accountable,4goten it is the decision of the federal government to decentralise lagos....Nigeria is failled Nations..Nairaland is tribal bigot forum,so I don't expect anything good from you...

I think Oyo State is the same?
Kano too?

abc115:


I think Oyo State is the same?
Kano too?

nah so,propaganda by propaganda...Lagos,kano...One Nigeria ��...we no say South East no follow.even south South too,Fake one Nigeria..am done replying u guys...Nepotism,tribalism and Religious is good for u guys..enjoy it while it last..

buckeyemedia:
I’m sure that Murtala Mohammed Airport Ikeja Lagos State is also a vision of Jagaban Borgu?

Nonsense.

what is your state governor's vision?

Let the will of the lord be done...

jidxin:
you don't hqve sense, it wasn't done by tinubu, the so called road is very narrow, with the intended economical and industrial expansion. The truck lane is narrow they break down easily so expect more gridlock. They did not envisage alot of things.

The only man with sense. That road is a dual road better than all the road in your village.

naptu2:


1) I was responding to Smart Politician who said that they had to build the 4th Mainland Bridge which will go through Ajah otherwise trucks will congest the Lekki Expressway. The junction to Epe is way before Ajah and therefore, trucks will pass through Epe without having to go through Ajah. Or are you trying to insist that trucks will have to pass through Ajah and Abraham Adesanya??

The Lekki-Epe expressway is already congested, it's like your one dimensional mind is only factoring traffic caused by the movement of cargo and not the effect on road users as a whole.

Trucks aren't the only traffic going through and from the Lekki-Epe axis, the introduction of more in that area will make the already bad traffic situation worse without an alternative route to the mainland.

2) The Lagos State Government and the Dangote Group are right now building an expressway through Magbon and Alade. All trucks will not have to go through Eleko Junction.

So the road isn't passable but you want us to think it is like I said before?

Thanks for confirming that.

3) What the hell are you talking about?? Do you think you are the only one that lives in Lekki?? I live in Lekki and I know what I am talking about!

Okay sir when do you wake up in the morning?

How long do you spend in traffic and when do you get back?

Do you think the location of this project was wise considering current the traffic situation?

Because you're talking like someone who lives in a different country.

4) Besides, the section from Eleko to Epe T junction has been reconstructed to include a truck lane and provision for the green rail line.

Thanks for letting me know, this time next year you'll show me the dividends of the provision.

Oh

wwwihy:
Vision of Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu coming to reality

Chao see the level you're celebrating your damn right. Tufikwa what normally they should do for the betterment of the society is rocket science to you

ASAPFERG1:
god punished my igbo tribe because we are wicked and descendants of the devil.. . reason why he decided to punish us with landlockness, nutritionless red mud land, and flatheadds

And flat heads, and yam legs, and red earth, and lean cassava stalks! God, you're partial to the Yoruba!

wwwihy:
Vision of Incoming President Bola Ahmed Tinubu coming to reality

I didn't see where Tinubu name is made there.

wwwihy:


Lagos State Govt has done that

done what? are you normal?

ADBA3005:



This is an eye opener for all the Yoruba omo ales that are supporting Peter Obi: Obi's emergence, simply because of the primordial hatred the ungrateful Igbos have towards the Yorubas, will lead to underdevelopment in the South West!

GEJ did worse. What was the end result?

Ezmans:
you are a great liar, lekki deep seaport is a federal government initiated project & was built by federal government

Says who?


Which FG? Obj, Yaradua, GEj or Buhari?

Okealaaye:


And flat heads, and yam legs, and red earth, and lean cassava stalks! God, you're partial to the Yoruba!