RENEWED HOPE ROAD INFRASTRUCTURE SIGNATURE, V1

ANALYZING THE POLICY DIRECTION OF THE FEDERAL MINISTRY OF WORKS IN THE YEAR 2025  AND  ITS IMPLICATION ON THE RENEWED HOPE AGENDA FOR ECONOMIC PROSPERITY

By Hon. Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji

The 2025 fiscal year is no doubt a  defining moment in the Renewed Hope administration’s roadmap towards securing  peace, prosperity, and greater prospects  in our hope for a renewed future for our country, Nigeria. The 2025 Budget, named, ‘Budget of Restoration, Securing Peace, Prosperity and Hope for a Greater Future for our Nation’, which was  presented  by the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria,His Excellency, Bola Ahmed Tinubu GCFR to the National Assembly, was painstakinly 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 administration in the works sector for the year 2025, the Federal Ministry of Works under the watch of His Excellency, Sen. Engr. Nweze David Umahi CON, Honourable Minister of Works, has formulated a workable blueprint for milestone funding and execution of projects set out in the 2025 budgetary proposal of the Ministry of Works. Part of the  agenda of the Ministry of Works 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. In this 2025 fiscal year,  the critical road projects in the six (6) Geo-political Zones of the nation are expected to receive more appropriation and more execution. In achieving the agenda of Works 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 of our dear President in the works sector. Already, Nigerians have started  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 guaranteed and our roads are now more passable than we had before this administration came on board. This is evident that Mr. 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 Honourable 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. To God be the glory

• Barr. Orji Uchenna Orji is the Special Adviser (Media) to the Honourable Minister of Works