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  • Oyo Govt approves 14 roads for routine maintenance

    Oyo Govt approves 14 roads for routine maintenance

    The Oyo State Government has approved 14 roads in the state for routine maintenance in order to ease vehicular movement for the citizenry in the state.

    The state Commissioner for Information, Culture and Tourism, Mr Toye Arulogun said on Monday in Ibadan that the Executive Council gave the approval for the routine maintenance of the roads at the recently held weekly meeting of the council.

    Arulogun explained that the state government would not relent in its infrastructural development drive and ensuring good roads for safety of lives of the citizenry.

    The commissioner urged the citizens to avoid any activity that can lead to the destruction of the roads in the state, adding that the approved roads and scope of work for routine maintenance include Asphaltic Improvement of Beere-Oranyan-Orita Aperin road; Asphaltic Rehabilitation of Ogbomoso High School – Baptist High School Road (Phase I); Reconstruction of failed existing double 3m x 3m x 11m Box culvert on Akoko stream along Ilero-Iganna Road and Provision of informatory Traffic Signs around the State High Court at Ring Road and Iyaganku, Ibadan.

    “Others are Asphaltic Rehabilitation of Oroki – Emmanuel Alayande College of Education, Oyo (Phase I); Asphaltic Rehabilitation and underpinning of eroded concrete base of existing culvert outlet near Heritage Bank Iyana Church and Oyeniyan B/Stop along Iwo Road, Olodo Road; Asphaltic rehabilitation of Ariyo Box culvert Approaches, Olorunsogo/Akanran road, Ibadan and Asphaltic Rehabilitation of Idi Arere-Popo Yemoja-Oke Ado with spur to Bode Market.

    “The roads also included Asphaltic Repair of Potholes around Danax – Mokola Roundabout – Sabo – Parliament Road – Secretariat Roundabout – Custom – VIO Office – Government House – Secretariat Roundabout road; Asphaltic Improvement of Iyaganku – N.T.C Road; Asphaltic Improvement of Eleta – Odinjo-Muslim Overhead Bridge; Repair/Reinstatement of vandalised Steel Barricade under Mokola Flyover at Mokola, Ibadan; Asphaltic Construction of Ologuneru Junction – Abanla – Alafara Junction and Asphaltic Rehabilitation of Oje Ibadan – Mobil, Yemetu Junction with spur to Adeoyo Hospitral, Yemetu road,” Arulogun stated.

     

  • To be among top 20 developed nations, Nigeria needs additional 200,000km of roads –NBRRI

    To be among top 20 developed nations, Nigeria needs additional 200,000km of roads –NBRRI

    Nigeria Building and Road Research Institute (NBRRI) has said that the country needs additional 200,000km of roads before 2020 to be among the 20 top developed countries in the world.

    Prof. Danladi Matawal , Director-General of NBRRI, made the information known in the institute’s newsletter for October to December.

    He said that if the country aspired to be among the 20 most developed countries in the world, one of the parameters is the volume of roads it had.

    “At the moment, we are somewhere close to the same figure. Only about 15 per cent to 20 (per cent) belong to the Federal Government, the rest of the roads belong to either states or local governments.

    `We have about 200,000km of roads, only about 45,000km are surface roads. The rest of them are laterite roads and we also know that even the existing ones need widening.

    “The traffic is growing, we need more express roads in the country and we say that every state capital in the country needs to be connected with primary roads that are express roads,’’ he said.

    Matawal said the institute came to the conclusion that the country needed additional 200,000km of roads after taking statistics without too much consideration on density but on the total volume of roads.

    He said the institute looked at the 20 most developed countries in the world to know the ones that were on the 18th , 19th and 20th positions and the number of roads they had compared to Nigeria’s position.

    He said that the institute also looked at how many roads Nigeria needed if she must be within the 20th, 19th or 18th position of most developed countries by 2020.