{"id":2918,"date":"2026-07-20T13:47:45","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/?p=2918"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:47:45","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:47:45","slug":"dave-umahi-renames-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-after-president-tinubu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/2026\/07\/20\/dave-umahi-renames-lagos-calabar-coastal-highway-after-president-tinubu\/","title":{"rendered":"Dave Umahi Renames Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway After President Tinubu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2919\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555070190-300x246.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555070190-300x246.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555070190-1024x839.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555070190-768x629.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555070190.jpg 1386w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Government has officially renamed the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Minister of Works Dave Umahi announced the decision in Abuja, stating that the renaming recognises President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s long-standing vision for the landmark infrastructure project, which he said was first conceived by Tinubu nearly 27 years ago during his tenure as Governor of Lagos State.<\/p>\n<p>Umahi also disclosed that President Tinubu approved a 400-kilometre extension of the Fourth Legacy Highway, increasing its total length from 700 kilometres to 1,100 kilometres.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2922\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555316535-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555316535-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555316535-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555316535-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/FB_IMG_1784555316535.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to the minister, the President also approved the reconstruction of sections of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and several other key road projects aimed at improving transportation, boosting connectivity, and driving economic growth across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has officially renamed the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway. Minister of Works Dave Umahi announced the decision in Abuja, stating that the renaming recognises President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s long-standing vision for the landmark infrastructure project, which he said was first conceived by Tinubu nearly 27 years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerianreporters.com\/NG\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}