COMPLETION date for the multi billion naira 2nd Niger Bridge linking Delta and Anambra states has again been shifted from the earlier scheduled date of October, 2022 to the first quarter of 2024.


 The implication of this is that President Muhammadu Buhari, whose administration started the construction of the bridge five years ago, would not be in office to commission it as his tenure would end in May, 2023.

The  Acting Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State,  Mr. Seyi Martins, who hinted of the new completion date however said work on the bridge had reached 95 per cent completion.

Martins, who spoke when members of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) toured the bridge  said the first phase of the project, which was the bridge proper, has substantially been completed.

According to him, what was remaining was the final asphalt surfacing on the Asaba end carriageway lane.

He said the asphalt wearing course had been fully laid on the Anambra end carriageway lane, just as other fittings, including the streetlights, the handrails, and the parapet wall had been completed.

Martins said the bridge, which is about 1.7km parallel to the existing bridge, was  a dual carriageway with three lanes on both sides measuring about 1.6km in length, while the total length of the project was 11.9km.

He also informed the COREN members that the steel guard rails were complete and that the bridge was set for vehicular traffic.

He stated further that the toll plaza area was almost completed, adding that what was left was the installation of toll booth canopies.

He said: “The bridge project was expected to be delivered by the end of December 2022, but there is a second phase which is a 3.3km road approach on the Delta side and 7km of approach road on the Anambra side that is yet to commence.

“But the government has deemed it fit that upon completion of the first phase, it will be open to traffic.

“At the Onitsha end, there is an interchange at Oba, where motorists can access the bridge, while at the Asaba end, there is a link road we are constructing to enable travellers to access the bridge from Benin-Onitsha road”.

The Controller added that the bridge could be accessed from the interchange being constructed at Oba on the Onitsha-Owerri road to connect traffic on the Asaba-Benin expressway pending the completion of the second phase.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/10/again-completion-date-for-2nd-niger-bridge-shifted-to-2024/

Buhari and apc scammers..

So by implication, Buhari did not complete a single project in the entire Southeast in 8 years.

And you ask why the Igbos hate Buhari?

Wicked Government

This is 62nd Independence message.

iwaeda:
COMPLETION date for the multi billion naira 2nd Niger Bridge linking Delta and Anambra states has again been shifted from the earlier scheduled date of October, 2022 to the first quarter of 2024.


 The implication of this is that President Muhammadu Buhari, whose administration started the construction of the bridge five years ago, would not be in office to commission it as his tenure would end in May, 2023.

The  Acting Federal Controller of Works in Anambra State,  Mr. Seyi Martins, who hinted of the new completion date however said work on the bridge had reached 95 per cent completion.

Martins, who spoke when members of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) toured the bridge  said the first phase of the project, which was the bridge proper, has substantially been completed.

According to him, what was remaining was the final asphalt surfacing on the Asaba end carriageway lane.

He said the asphalt wearing course had been fully laid on the Anambra end carriageway lane, just as other fittings, including the streetlights, the handrails, and the parapet wall had been completed.

Martins said the bridge, which is about 1.7km parallel to the existing bridge, was  a dual carriageway with three lanes on both sides measuring about 1.6km in length, while the total length of the project was 11.9km.

He also informed the COREN members that the steel guard rails were complete and that the bridge was set for vehicular traffic.

He stated further that the toll plaza area was almost completed, adding that what was left was the installation of toll booth canopies.

He said: “The bridge project was expected to be delivered by the end of December 2022, but there is a second phase which is a 3.3km road approach on the Delta side and 7km of approach road on the Anambra side that is yet to commence.

“But the government has deemed it fit that upon completion of the first phase, it will be open to traffic.

“At the Onitsha end, there is an interchange at Oba, where motorists can access the bridge, while at the Asaba end, there is a link road we are constructing to enable travellers to access the bridge from Benin-Onitsha road”.

The Controller added that the bridge could be accessed from the interchange being constructed at Oba on the Onitsha-Owerri road to connect traffic on the Asaba-Benin expressway pending the completion of the second phase.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/10/again-completion-date-for-2nd-niger-bridge-shifted-to-2024/

I think it's better that way than hurriedly opening it to score political points. At least for safety reasons.

The interchange at Oba really makes sense. Julius Berger finished work there. It is a welcome development from the caricature substandard flyover that Peter Obi constructed which JB had to demolish to build the new one. The second Niger bridge itself is ready but the approach roads in Onitsha and Asaba(10.3km in total) are the hold up. It is amazing that it will take the federal government an extra one year to complete 10.3km of approach roads!

Dem go use that bridge give us another upper cut for budget 2023. It was just to score some point.

Chai Igbos de see far ooo.. they called this man a glorified scammer from day one .. Today they have been roundly vidicated cuz he has scammed his friends.. his subjects.. his party .. and even Baba Emilokan gallantly.. What a scamming scammer

God is wonderful,it will now be called obidient bridge...we don't want Buhari standing there this year telling lies.

God bless the incoming commander presido OBI.

Mynd44, Nlpfmod

Tinubu and his supporters wanted to use it to campaign for 2023.
Voom bubu don hit him hard couple with ASUU strike.

Peter Obi will be the one to now commission it after being sworn in as president.

Salvador1:
Tinubu and his supporters wanted to use it to campaign for 2023.
Voom bubu don hit him hard couple with ASUU strike.

Peter Obi will be the one to now commission it after being sworn in as president.

Sure someone will deny it

Tinubuagbado:
Buhari and apc scammers..

That bridge was supposed to start from okpanam in Delta state , it was cut , yet still not completed .

The distance they cut is like cele to ikotun

Bontafa:


That bridge was supposed to start from okpanam in Delta state , it was cut , yet still not completed .

The distance they cut is like cele to ikotun

APC Is a big scammer

Clicmarin

Please I will advise that before you comment on this thread you go and read the article.
The first phase is almost completed and the bridge will be opened to vehicular movement.
The second phase will be completed in 2024.

I want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for making sure that in the 2023 election season no one is using the 2nd Niger Bridge as a campaign tool.
I and other grateful Igbos will forever be thankful that he took it upon himself to make that bridge a reality.

Whenever the story of the 2nd Niger Bridge is told his name will be on the lips of friends and foes.

Okoroawusa:
Please I will advise that before you comment on this thread you go and read the article.
The first phase is almost completed and the bridge will be opened to vehicular movement.
The second phase will be completed in 2024.

I want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for making sure that in the 2023 election season no one is using the 2nd Niger Bridge as a campaign tool.
I and other grateful Igbos will forever be thankful that he took it upon himself to make that bridge a reality.

Whenever the story of the 2nd Niger Bridge is told his name will be on the lips of friends and foes.

Thank what?

Was he elected to go there and buy cars for Niger republic?

Sorry for you

Penguin2:
So by implication, Buhari did not complete a single project in the entire Southeast in 8 years.

And you ask why the Igbos hate Buhari?

I happy sef
So the facts speak for themselves
The hate is real

Okoroawusa:
Please I will advise that before you comment on this thread you go and read the article.
The first phase is almost completed and the bridge will be opened to vehicular movement.
The second phase will be completed in 2024.

I want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for making sure that in the 2023 election season no one is using the 2nd Niger Bridge as a campaign tool.
I and other grateful Igbos will forever be thankful that he took it upon himself to make that bridge a reality.

Whenever the story of the 2nd Niger Bridge is told his name will be on the lips of friends and foes.

When is the completion date

Okoroawusa:
Please I will advise that before you comment on this thread you go and read the article.
The first phase is almost completed and the bridge will be opened to vehicular movement.
The second phase will be completed in 2024.

I want to thank President Muhammadu Buhari for making sure that in the 2023 election season no one is using the 2nd Niger Bridge as a campaign tool.
I and other grateful Igbos will forever be thankful that he took it upon himself to make that bridge a reality.

Whenever the story of the 2nd Niger Bridge is told his name will be on the lips of friends and foes.

You are irredeemable. I weep for your people.

Not even in 2023 na wao,
Buhari should have completed and commission the bridge before the expiration of his tenor.

H

After all the propaganda that the bridge is ready for commissioning next year?

Am waiting for FGs denial

Our darling president is trying




We the youths are solidly behind him

Blackfire:
Our darling president is trying




We the youths are solidly behind him

In Ajuleri's voice we are confronted by oppositions who will not shift their farm lands

Where is the griller

People are robbed, kidnapped with abandoned recklessness on Longbridge- Kara