https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2n8Wmisor0c

The saying that time is money is true for anyone who travels the Loko-Oweto road where the construction of a new bridge across the Benue River has shortened the journey from Abuja or Nassarawa to Benue State by three hours, saving motorists extra fuel costs, with more time to spare for productive enterprises.

The construction of the Loko-Oweto road is indeed a big relief for motorists travelling to Otukpo and other eastern and southern parts of the country from Abuja or Keffi and its environs.

Using this route, the people of Benue South Senatorial district travelling from Abuja will no longer have to pass through Lafia to Makurdi or through the longer route of Lokoja-Ejule road to Otukpa before getting to their destination.

Now, they journey through Keffi and from Loko in Nasarawa State cross to Oweto on the other side of the Benue River and onward to Ugbokpo, Adoka, Ogobia and Otukpo, thereby cutting off 103 kilometres from the journey from Abuja to Otukpo.

With this new route, the six-hour journey from Abuja to the heart of Benue is reduced by half to just over three hours.

The Loko-Oweto bridge, a Sukuk Bond-funded project that straddles the Benue River is now 100% completed, while the 74-kilometre stretch of the road, first awarded in 2006 under President Obasanjo, is nearing completion.

Already, the new road has been a boon to travellers as well as the communities lying on its path. Residents of communities in Loko who spoke with Idoma TELEVISION affirmed that business activities have become brisk since the bridge was completed.

The significance of this road cannot be overemphasized. While indeed the Loko-Oweto bridge linked Nasarawa and Benue states, it is also an important link between the North and South of Nigeria as it offers a passage from the Middle Belt to the South East and South South.

https://idomavoice.com/construction-on-loko-oweto-road-nears-completion-video-photos/

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Really commendable...


Atleast it will save me the stress of passing through the death traps road at Makurdi.

Is it for Garri, or Dodo?
Celebrating mediocrity.

Aside the late Shehu Shagari’s administration, no other administration has done well in the area of infrastructural development like the present administration.

Buhari you have done Nigeria well. We love you and may God keep you alive for long.

Nice

Nice but easy routes for the herdsmen too


This bridge and that of Niger bridge which is the longest? I want to check something

APC out classes PDP in terms of infrastructure . Rail , roads ,bridges plus improved power supply that happened recently.
With lesser oil revenue , pandemic and corruption APC still out do PDP . PDP really wasted 16 years of Nigerians.
APC deserves another 8 years so Nigerians can see the clearer picture .
On insecurity APC has failed just like PDP.


Majority of Nigerians are not enlightened they don’t even know if oil price fall it’ll affect the Naira as oil is the major source of revenue. All they’ll tell you is that naira is weaken .
When the national Grid collapsed yesterday people were happy , but as at last week when a thread was opened about improved power they said it’s because of election. And these people are so called Christians who go to church every Sunday but bad mouth their country and wish her bad .
The more you wish your country bad it’ll remain BAD.
The only thing I’m impressed about this present youth is that they’ve put politicians on their toes via social media.

I support Another 8yrs for APC They should focus on security, diversifying the economy, reconstruction and continue the momentum on infrastructure and power everything will be good its a gradual process .

We don’t want a Perceived angel Who Will Come and scatter everything. I like the continuation in progressive change in Lagos I need that in Nigeria .

If you know you can’t wait for the progressive change in Nigeria due to age factor you’re free to JAKPA , you can still contribute to the economy outside the shores of the country but the country is gradually moving if you look inward .
There’s know where in the world today that there’s no inflation , flood or a slight shift of improved standard of living . But you’ll see Nigerians always castigating but they can’t keep common traffic laws, and litter the drainages with dirts it’s a really big shame .

The only reason why advanced counties manage to cope is because of the progressive good governance they’ve had in the past that planed in contingencies like this . But Nigeria has been wrecked with bad leadership for over 30 years. It’s not rocket science that it’ll only take time to recover .

Nigeria can only be Grate with positive mindset from both government and the citizens.

Good

Good News.

I Happy

When you vote for the right person the results are incontrovertible

If not for insecurity, PMB's investment in infrastructure is unprecedented.

As for economy, the whole world is facing same issue with many more facing even worst economic woes

Money no finish for here o, but one road for Ogun state has been abandoned cos money finish... Southwest leaders has played politics that have become injurious to them. It's bad, Ota make alot of money to the federal government. Yet simple construction of 13km road that sees over 400 commercial trucks, trailers, tankers and container ply the road daily has been abandoned, but one road that does not see up to 10 cars and 20 okada in a day started and finish with no abandonment or hold up due to money. This country is laughable.

Fashola and APC are really doing great job.

Congratulations

Excellent

Your topic is about the road but your video and pictures are showing the bridge that has been completed since 2 years ago.
No pictures of the said road nearing completion

BUHARI FAILED?

1. “Buhari is a failure,” but please who has done more roads and bridges than this Gov’t since the coming of democracy in 1999?

Let’s deal with facts as we move on…

2. “Buhari is a failure,” but can you tell me any administration that has done more housing projects since 1999 than this Gov’t?

Maybe @StatiSense can help us here!

3. “Buhari is a failure,” but before Buhari, Boko Haram was having a caliphate in Borno. You needed scanners to screen people in banks and churches. Suicide bombing was a norm, is it still the same today? The NW & NC won’t be different, they will collect too.
Considerable success has been made in the North-East as a whole, & even the blind knows that, except the ‘politically blind’. Nothing is insurmountable, we will win in the NW & NC to either now or the next admin.

But PMB has laid that foundation already with arms acquisition.

4. “Buhari is a failure,” but there was a time in this country when the farmers-herders clash became a National problem and a clout-chasing topic. But this same “failed” Gov’t designed the NLTP, and today, has that not been minimized? Why are we not talking about this?

5. “Buhari is a failure,” but since the time of the military days, no President has equipped the Army, Airforce, and Navy simultaneously like this administration. It is a fact!

You can also “Go and Verify!”

6. “Buhari is a failure,” but how many cancer centers were in Nigeria before this failure came, and how many do we have now? Lagos, Umuahia, and Kano have world-class Cancer Centers today.

How do you measure failure?

7. “Buhari is a failure,” but since the war that ended in 1970, it took this failure to recognize the Biafra Army and Police who fought during that war, and even pay their pension and emoluments accrued to them all these years.

Failure?


8. “Buhari is a failure,” but it took the ‘failure’ to build the Zik Mausoleum after years of neglect; recognizing M.K.O Abiola as a President that he should have been, & awarding him all that is due to him as an ex-President, and even declaring June 12, our democracy day.

9. “Buhari is a failure,” but this failure has brought reforms into the Governance system like implementing IPPIS and TSA for more accountability, even when these 2 have been existing for years before this Gov’t.

10. “Buhari is a failure,” for having a “rubber stamp” NASS that has passed more important bills that affects the life of every Nigerian than any Gov’t or NASS has ever done in Nigeria. Every bill has been a huge reform in all sectors — from Energy to electoral reforms.


11. “Buhari is a failure,” for paying pensioners your “letter writer” & his Vice sold the companies they were working & forced to quit their jobs with no emolument whatsoever.

Go & tell the workers of ALSCON, Delta Steel, NICON, Nigeria Airways, NAHCO, etc that Buhari failed na.

12. “Buhari is a failure,” but we were only having an unfinished Abuja-Kaduna rail when he took over — he finished it. Now, we have Lagos-Ibadan, Warri-Itakpe, PH-Maiduguri (under construction), Kaduna-Kano (under construction), and he’s a failure. Issokay!

13. “Buhari is a failure,” but where was ProForce, DICON, NAVMC? While DICON was existing, what were they producing? Today, we have these companies bringing our hardware for our military like never seen before in this country — and Buhari has taken us back to 1900? ��
If the environment was not created, or Buhari failed, will ProForce be in Nigeria today? Why didn’t they come to Nigeria when Nigeria was in 2050? Would Innoson have been producing parts for our military today? “Buhari failed” kee u dia!

14. “Buhari is a failure,” but what was the state of our General and Specialist hospitals before this Gov’t came? This Gov’t has not only digitalized them, but they have also renovated and equipped many. Didn’t we see videos where people’s parents looted money for hospital equipment?
Are they the Gov’t?
The children of the CMD of that hospital in PH and his cohorts that were trying to divert the N900mn Gov’t intervention, are also here calling their “father” a failure. Hypocrites!

15. “Buhari is a failure,” but before he came, I remember celebrities doing videos to mock our Int’l airport. In one instance, 2face did a video at the Kotoka Int’l Airport to mock We’ve all forgotten all that today, because “Buhari has taken us to 1896” with better airports.

16. “Buhari is a failure,” but he fought the DISCOS your ‘crooked’ lovers sold our electricity to, and today we are having our DISCOS back one after the other, while the SIEMENS deal is bringing that much-needed electricity we’ve been yearning for all these years.
It’s real, it’s verifiable. If that is what failure looks like, I want to be a failure every day.

17. “Buhari is a failure,” but before this Gov’t, piracy on our waters was alarming. Insurance on goods from abroad was in the thousands of $$. This Gov’t investment in our NAVY & NIMASA simultaneously has made our waters one of the safest in the world today. Is this failure?

18. “Buhari is a failure,” but his Gov’t has promoted “Made in Nigeria” goods more than any since 1999. Executive Order was even signed to that effect, & today the benefit can only be well put in words by our farmers (grains & livestock), and manufacturers (Innoson, Nord, etc). Failure?

19. “Buhari is a failure,” but his Gov’t was the first to give some Universities an uninterrupted power supply by providing them with solar electricity. BUK—Kano, FUAM—Makurdi, UDUS—Sokoto, FUNAI—Ebonyi, and UniMAID (almost completed). Do you call this failure?

20. “Buhari is a failure,” but we only had an Apapa & TinCan port before he came — today, Onne & Calabar ports are receiving cargos under his administration. Onitsha Port has just been concessioned. Let’s not even talk about the State ports coming up, like Lekki, Badagry & Ibom.

Are we back to 1924?

“Buhari is a failure,” but before this ‘failure,’ nobody was bold enough to establish a refinery in Nigeria. The common modular refinery, how many were in Nigeria before this ‘failure’ came? We have modular refineries in Imo, Bayelsa, Edo, and even Delta now.

Dangote and BUA are building refineries, while the PH refinery is being totally turned into a brand new one, but Buhari failed, and Nigeria is now in 1740.

What is your definition of failure? How has not being able to end insecurity turned to failure? How has inflation which is a global phenomenon become the indices to measure failure? Can the Gov’t do better economically and security-wise? Of course, they can.

Can only 1 Gov’t solve the whole problem in Nigeria? No, of course not. But we must look at where we were coming from, the available resources then and now, and the pandemic and global economic downturn should be factored in too if you’re being open-minded.

Insecurity can never end in society, they come in different ways, the only thing is to have a Gov’t that can respond to them as they come.

This Gov’t has done its best and we must acknowledge that, while also pointing out where they didn’t meet expectations. Using blanket statements like “Buhari has failed” is trying to be politically blind and deaf. Yes, I said it!

Buhari will hand the baton over to Tinubu and he will continue from where Buhari stopped and conclude the race to perfection.

Beckham14:
Really commendable...


Atleast it will save me the stress of passing through the death traps road at Makurdi.

I went home via that route and I commended the quality of both the bridge and the road. Less than 3 hours driving from Abuja, I was in Adoka

Wow! It is beautiful.


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