Section 2 Of Lagos-Ibadan Expressway Reaches 16% Completion - Official

              Mr Nkereuwem Ukpong, the Deputy Director, Federal Highway (South West), Federal Ministry of Works, said the reconstruction work on Section 2 of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway had reached 16 per cent completion.

Ukpong, who is the engineer representative in charge of Section 2 of the expressway, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos that other aspects of the reconstruction work so far completed included drains and culverts.

"We have achieved up to 16 per cent completion and then we have finished works on the asphalt level up to the binder course.

"We have completed up to 16 kilometres of binder course; binder course is the course you put before you have the wearing course.

"As for the works there, you have clearing of the median, you have the building up of the sub-base, base course, an