The Federal Government has ordered the evacuation of trucks and trailers along the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway before the year ends.
It said the move is to ease vehicular movement and reduce damage on the shoulders of the highway.
The Director of Highway Construction and Rehabilitation, Ministry of Works and Housing who is also the Chairman of the Committee, Engr FOLORUNSHO ESAN, disclosed this during an inspection tour of the road.
He said a Presidential Inter-Agency Committee has been constituted to this effect.