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Nigeria's Coastal Highway: Climate Risk or Development Dream?
8 Jun
Summary
- Nigeria's $11 billion coastal highway faces criticism for climate change risks.
- Rising sea levels threaten the newly constructed highway along the Nigerian coast.
- The project is a flagship initiative aimed at revolutionizing transportation and tourism.
Nigeria's government is pushing forward with the $11 billion Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway, a 700-kilometer project designed to connect Lagos to Calabar.
President Bola Tinubu inaugurated the first section of the highway, promoting it as a revolutionary transportation and tourism project.
However, environmentalists and scientists express grave concerns about the highway's sustainability given rising sea levels and coastal erosion along the Gulf of Guinea.
