The federal government of Nigeria (FG) has officially opened the Second Niger Bridge for use on Thursday, December 15, in order to ease traffic in the south-east during the festive season. Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, who gave the order on Wednesday at the inauguration of the bridge, said it will be opened […]
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Vice President of Nigeria, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo had a crowded day in eastern Nigeria on Friday visiting Enugu, Anambra and Delta States. When he got to Anambra, he inspected the Second Niger Bridge. He also had a Family Chat in Onitsha where he visited the family of Mrs Esther Chika, the best Homegrown School Feeding […]
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved N230.2 billion for roads projects and mining data in the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed and the Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Alhaji Bawa Bwari, made this known when they briefed State House […]
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Sogbesan Adetokunbo, Director of Highway Bridges and Design, Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, has said the main project on the second Niger bridge will gulp N210 billion. Adetokunbo, who said this on Friday in Asaba during a media tour of the project, noted that the Federal Government had begun the procurement processes for […]
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Innocent Alumonah, Federal Controller of Works in Anambra, says a part of the project work at the Second Niger Bridge linking Asaba in Delta and Onitsha in Anambra is already 44.6 per cent completed. Mr Alumonah told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday that the contracting firm, Julius Berger Nig. Plc. had also […]
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The Vice President’s spokesperson, Laolu Akande, has clarified the error in the publications credited to Vice President Yemi Osinbajo on release of fund for construction of the Second Niger Bridge. Mr. Akande gave the clarification on Tuesday following some media quoting of Mr. Osinbajo as announcing $2 billion released for the project instead of N2 […]
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Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has assured Nigerians that the present administration would complete the second Niger Bridge before the end of 2019. Osinbajo stated this on Friday in Onitsha at the official flag-off campaign of Mr Tony Nwoye, the All Progressives Congress (APC) governorship candidate in Anambra. He said that N2 billion had already been […]
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The Federal Government has awarded contract for early works on the Second Niger Bridge and emergency repairs at the Tamburawa Bridge in Kano State at a total cost of N16.3 billion. Mr Mohammed Abdullahi, the Assistant Director of Information in the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing, made this known in a statement on […]
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