The Federal Government through the Ministry of Works plans to rehabilitate and construct a total of 468 roads and highways across the country in the 2025 budget proposal, according to findings by The PUNCH.
It also proposed a sum of N1.013tn to fund the construction of these projects, with the construction of Lafia road and the dualisation of the 9th mile (Enugu) Otukpo-Makurdi (Keffi phase two) getting the highest allocation of N166.004bn.
Our correspondent observed that the number of planned road construction projects decreased by 1,457 from the 1,925 roads proposed in the 2024 budget, but reflects an increase of N547.55bn from the N548.56bn allocated in the same 2024 budget.
A breakdown of the ministry’s line items in the 2025 Appropriation Bill presented to the National Assembly showed that N15.02bn was appropriated for contingency funds and N2bn for the purchase of vehicles for Senior Special Assistants.
The road projects to be executed under the Ministry of Works also indicated the provision of N10bn for the dualisation of Kano-Maiduguri road linking Kano-Jigawa-Bauchi-Yobe and Borno states (Section V), N6bn for the reconstruction of Abuja-Lokoja road, N12bn for the construction of section one of the Kano- Wudil- Shuarin road and N34bn for the dualisation of Kano-Katsina road.
