PROJECT · TRANSPORTATION & HIGHWAY
Lekki 7th Axial Road
A 50-kilometre cargo evacuation corridor from the Lekki Deep Seaport to the Sagamu–Ore Expressway. AEC is engaged for design and supervision.
CLIENT
Federal Ministry of Works
LOCATION
Lekki Deep Seaport – Epe – Sagamu–Ore Expressway
SCALE
50 km dual carriageway, 5 km of bridges
OUR ROLE
Design and construction supervision
50 km
Dual carriageway from the seaport inland
5 km
Of bridges along the alignment
$651.7m
Approved value, Federal Executive Council, May 2025
A deep seaport is only as good as the road out of it.
The 7th Axial Road runs 50 kilometres inland from the Lekki Deep Seaport, through Epe, to the Sagamu–Ore Expressway. It is a dual carriageway carrying roughly five kilometres of bridges, approved by the Federal Executive Council in May 2025 at $651.7 million, with funding sought from China Exim Bank.
Its purpose is to take container traffic off the Lekki–Epe Expressway and out of Lagos altogether. Ports fail on their landside connections far more often than on their berths, and the design problem here is a heavy-axle freight route that has to cross wetland, existing settlements and a working expressway without inheriting the congestion it was built to avoid.
AEC is engaged for design and supervision — the alignment, pavement and structures, and the resident engineering that follows them on site.
Our role
Route and corridor design
Horizontal and vertical alignment for the 50-kilometre corridor, set out for the axle loading a seaport evacuation route carries.
Pavement and drainage design
Pavement designed for sustained heavy container traffic, with drainage sized for the wetland and floodplain the corridor crosses.
Bridges and structures
Design of roughly five kilometres of bridges together with the interchanges and culverts along the alignment.
Construction supervision
Resident engineering, materials testing and quality control on site through the construction period.
Contract administration
Measurement, valuation and progress reporting to the client as the works proceed.
Corridor length, bridge extent, route and approved value: Federal Executive Council approval of 6 May 2025, reported by the Federal Ministry of Works and Nigerian press. AEC’s engagement on this project is design and construction supervision.
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