Tag: FG Bans Contractors from Using Laterite for Road Construction

  The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has cancelled the use of laterite as a base in road construction in Nigeria. A statement by the ministry’s Director of Information, Blessing Lere-Adams, said Umahi also directed that henceforth, contractors should use ‘lumps, sharp sand and stone base’ before the laying of concrete or asphalt pavement. The…