Benin–Ore–Sagamu Expressway is a stretch dual-lane connecting

Benin City Benin City is the capital and largest city of Edo State, Edo State, Nigeria. It is the fourth-largest city in Nigeria according to the 2006 census, after Lagos, Kano (city), Kano, and Ibadan, with a population estimate of about 3,500,000 as of ...

to Ore town in Ondo State and Sagamu in Ogun State. It's a major route from the Southern part of the country to the Southwestern, and Northern parts of Nigeria through the Benin–Auchi axis.

Construction

The Benin to Lagos highway was the first conceived and constructed Federal Trunk A road between 1962 and 1963 in Nigeria. It was later awarded to Dumez Construction Company at the cost of 229.5 million naira for reconstruction and dualization and was commissioned in 1981.{{Cite journal, last=Olubomehin, first=Oladipupo, date=2016-02-12, title= The development of national trunk roads in Nigeria, 1960 – 2013, journal= Lagos Historical Review, volume=15, page=1 , doi=10.4314/lhr.v15i1.1 , eissn=1596-5031

Technical Analysis

2 x dual lanes expressway – 2 x 262 20,000,000 m3 of earthworks, 4,000,000 m2 of crushed rock and soil cement base, hot rolled asphalt pavement, 10,000 m2 of bridge decking (dual 24′ wide carriageway) concrete median barrier. Sagamu-Benin Expressway is part of the Lagos-Mombasa, as well as Algiers-Lagos sections of the Trans-Africa Highway, and Nigeria's East–West Road, making it one of the most important road networks in Nigeria.

References

Expressways in Nigeria