The 2025 fiscal year is no doubt a defining moment in the President Bola Tinubu-led administration of Renewed Hope especially in the area of the roadmap towards securing peace, prosperity and greater prospects for the future of Nigeria. The 2025 Budget tagged, ‘Budget of Restoration, Securing Peace, Prosperity and Hope for a Greater Future for our Nation’, which was presented by the president to the National Assembly, was painstakingly and meticulously prepared to stimulate seamless progress in the administration’s ‘journey of economic renewal and institutional development’.
In furtherance of the aspirations of the Renewed Hope Agenda in the works sector for the year 2025, the Federal Ministry of Works under the watch of Engr. David Umahi has formulated a workable blueprint for milestone funding and execution of projects set out in the 2025 budgetary proposal of the ministry. Part of the agenda of the ministry under him is to signpost the Renewed Hope Road Infrastructure signature of excellence quality, speed, and value for money in the road infrastructure development trajectory of the nation. This fiscal year, the critical road projects in the six Geo-political Zones of the nation are expected to receive more appropriation and more execution. In achieving the agenda of the ministry, the contractors, as well as ministry’s project engineers, are to be intentional in delivering in the terms and the timeline of the projects, and this must be reflected in their technical capabilities and professional capacities.
The Renewed Hope initiatives of stakeholders’ engagement and public participation in project management and delivery, constant supervision of projects, inter-ministerial and intergovernmental collaborations, and thinking outside the box for project conceptualization, funding and execution are among the salient delivery marks in the Renewed Hope agenda Mr President in the works sector. Already, Nigerians have begun to see from the completed sections of the inherited ongoing road projects and the legacy projects, the difference between the Renewed Hope administration and other administrations as the Nigerian roads are now built with 50 years guarantee and our roads are now more passable than we had before this administration came on board. This is evident that the president is on the pathway to the evolution of a competitive, prosperous, and sustainable economy through road sector development.
The January 2025 events of the minister of Works, including the inspection visit to Aba-Port Harcourt Expressway and some of the ongoing projects in South-South Zone including the East-West road, his interministerial inspection visit with the Honourable Minister of Information and National Orientation to the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road project in North Central and North West Zones, the recent 2-day retreat of the Federal Ministry of Works for the Highways Engineers and Managerial Staff captioned “Ensuring Delivery of Mr. President’s Agenda on Road Infrastructural Development*, the 2025 budget defence of Federal Ministry of Works before the Senate and Federal House of Representatives Committees on Works that held recently, speak eloquently of the preparedness and action plan of the Federal Ministry of Works towards achieving the legacy aspirations of the Renewed Hope administration of Mr. President in the works sector.
The 2025 fiscal year shall witness more milestones in project delivery. Completed federal road projects in all the States and Geo-Political Zones will be lined up for commissioning. There will be more public awareness and engagements. Media partnerships in project awareness campaigns will be increased. Again, this year is a moment for contractors and project engineers who are a clog in the wheel of progress in the Nigerian road projects to have a change of heart or be shown the way out.
Road infrastructure revolution under the Renewed Hope administration is guaranteed, and the current team of the Federal Ministry of Works is equal to the task.
– Barr. Orji is SA (Media) to the Minister of Works
