The hope of an early completion of the Second Niger Bridge has been dashed. It will not be completed and ready for use until 2020, Uche Orji, Managing Director and CEO of Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), has said.
The bridge flagged off on March 2014 by former President Goodluck Jonathan was initially billed for completion in March 2018.
According to Orji who briefed President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday, on the Second Niger Bridge, health care, agriculture, power and other activities of the NSIA, the sum of $2.2 million has been spent on the project preparatory state of the bridge alone.
He said unlike the current Niger bridge which is one lane either way, the 11.9-kilometre Second Niger Bridge would be a six-lane highway comprising three lanes either way.
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