Apapa port roads to get face lift

     Nigerian Ports Authority, NPA, would raise N4.3 billion to reconstruct access roads around Apapa Port as port operators withdrew services over poor infrastructure.

    Managing Director of NPA, Hadiza Usman, disclosed this in a stakeholders’ meeting in Lagos, saying the NPA would provide N1.8 billion while Dangote Group and Flour Mills would provide N2.5 billion.
   The reconstruction would begin within one month and the Federal Ministry of Works would request the approval of Federal Executive Council to obtain the necessary approvals for NPA to embark of the project.
   The NPA boss also attributed the congestion around Apapa and Tin-Can Island ports to lack of an effective holding bay, trailer parks and non-reconstruction of ports roads in Lagos.
   Speaking earlier, the Executive Secretary of the Nigerian Shippers’ Council, Hassan Bello, pleaded with port operators to suspend the withdrawal of their services and await the outcome of the initiatives of the NPA management.