Lagos-Ibadan_Expressway
Lagos–Ibadan Expressway
Expressway in Nigeria
The Lagos–Ibadan Expressway is a 127.6-kilometre-long (79.3 mi) expressway connecting Ibadan, the capital of Oyo State and Lagos, Nigeria's largest city.[1] It is also the major route to the northern, southern and eastern parts of Nigeria.[2] The expressway is the oldest in Nigeria, commissioned in August 1978 during the Military era, under the administration of Lieutenant-General Olusegun Obasanjo.[3]
The expressway is one of the busiest inter-state routes in Nigeria and handles more than 250,000 PCUs daily and constitutes one of the largest road networks in Africa.[4][5] It is part of the Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) projects, concerned with road improvement and connectivity between the States of Nigeria.[6]