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The Federal Government terminated the contract with Reynolds Construction Company for the ninety-eight-kilometer Oyo to Ogbomoso road project due to prolonged delays that caused severe hardship for commuters and hindered local economic activities, with Works Minister Dave Umahi assuring stakeholders in Ibadan that the project will soon be re-awarded under President Bola Ahmed Tinubu's administration. During the same stakeholders' meeting, participants also urged the government to expedite the rehabilitation of other regional routes like the Ibadan to Ilesa dual carriageway, while Umahi separately announced plans to rebuild the remaining eighteen-kilometer section of the seventy-eight-kilometer Lagos to Ota to Abeokuta expressway using reinforced concrete pavement after eight years of stalled progress by Julius Berger.