NEWS: Tinubu’s Coastal Highway — 30km in 12 Months, Just 670km Left! ETA: 23 Years?

Lagos, Nigeria – It’s been exactly one year since the groundbreaking fanfare of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Lagos-Calabar 700km Coastal Highway project — a supposed mega infrastructure dream meant to connect the south-south to Nigeria’s commercial capital.

Well, congratulations, Nigeria! In 12 long months, the government has triumphantly completed 30 kilometres of the road. That’s right — just 30km out of 700km. A smooth, well-paved ribbon of hope… followed by 670km of uncertainty, sand, and potential.

Now, let’s do a bit of math (since the Ministry won’t):

• 700km total – 30km completed = 670km remaining
• 30km took 12 months, meaning the pace is 2.5km per month
• So, 670km ÷ 2.5km/month = 268 months
• That’s 22.3 years to finish the rest of the road — if nothing slows down!

At this pace, the much-touted coastal highway will be fully delivered sometime around the year 2047, assuming no inflation, politics, elections, flooding, or “technical hitches” stall the progress.

Many Nigerians are beginning to ask if this is a highway project or a Netflix series with endless seasons. Some have mockingly renamed it “The Great Nigerian Road to Retirement”, predicting that the current crop of officials might be long gone before the final stretch hits Calabar.

Still, government officials assure us the project is “on track.”

But on which track, no one can quite say.

Stay tuned. The road might not reach Calabar anytime soon, but at least we’ve gone from Eko Atlantic to ‘Eko-Wait-Tic.’