Second Niger Bridge ready 2024 — Acting federal controller
The Acting Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State, Seyi Martins, has said that the second Niger-bridge will be fully ready for use by the first quarter of 2024. He stated this on Saturday, when he received members of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria on the bridge, adding that work on the facility had reached 95 per cent completion. Martins said although the bridge project would be officially commissioned by December, 2022, it would be fully opened for use by 2024, due to a second phase of work, a 3.3km road approach, on the Delta side and 7km road approach on the Anambra side that was yet to commence. He pointed out that the first phase of the project had been substantially completed, saying that what was left was the final asphalt surfacing, on the Asaba bound carriageway lane. According to him, the bridge which would be about 1.7km parallel to the existing bridge, would be a dual carriageway with three lanes on both sides measuring about 1.6km in length ...