Nigeria, May 25 -- The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway was originally conceived to connect Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Delta, Rivers, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, and Cross Rivers States. In other words, the 700-kilometre road, whose contract was awarded at $11 billion and remains the biggest infrastructure project by the Bola Tinubu administration, was meant to connect two of the country's three geopolitical zones in southern Nigeria. Why was the Southeast left out? No explanation was given for this fundamental political and economic error. But this awful deficiency has now been rectified. On April 16, 2025, Tinubu flagged off the 118-kilometer road extension from Calabar, the Cross River State capital, to Afikpo in Ebonyi State, connecting the Southeast. T...