Nigeria’s Delta State to construct and rehabilitate roads

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Nigeria’s Delta State has approved the construction and rehabilitation of 4 roads, Patrick Ukah, the Commissioner for Information has said.

The Ughelli-Afisere-Ufoma road will undergo reconstruction while the Owa-Eki/Owa-Alero road will be dualized.

On the other hand, the Kefas road, Oleh will be extended to the Emede-Olomoro road junction, as the Okpare-Umolu-Kiagbodo road will undergo rehabilitation as well.

The State officials have expressed their intentions to embark on the State’s urban renewal and development efforts. According to Augoye, responsible for State’s works, the road projects are particularly intended to boost the State’s economic development closer to the people and open up growth opportunity to various communities.

The ongoing work at Okpanam road will have to be completed before the rain season.

Mr. Edevbie, responsible for the State’s finance confirmed that, Delta State Government successfully generated a total average of US$17.57 of the Internally Generated Revenue monthly.

Delta State is an agricultural and oil producing state in Nigeria. Located in the region known as the South-South geo-political zone, which has a population of 4,098,291 (of which 2,674,306 are males and 2,024,085 are females). Its capital city, Asaba, is located on the northern end of the state covering approximately 762km2.

 

The State is also proud to have produced the former World Bank Managing Director and a former Federal Minister of Finance and Coordinating of Economy, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala,