₦airaland Forum

The Bodo-Bonny Road project is nearing 80 per cent completion, marking major progress on the 35.7km corridor being handled by Julius Berger Nigeria Plc.

In a statement on Wednesday, the company revealed that it had continued work on the road despite persistent torrential rainfall that has posed significant challenges to construction activities.

“Despite the challenge, the contractors remained undaunted as their workforce pranced on with determination and grit, hitting milestone progress along the 35.7km road.

“Against the backdrop of the rains, aspects of the work are affected; but work steadily goes on in the stretch of Bodo-Bonny Road,” the statement read.

The Project Manager, Tim Nippert, while speaking at the project site between the Nanabie Bridge and Bonny Island, disclosed that 80 per cent of the work had been completed, including all the bridges, which he said were “substantially completed with only pavement joints pending.”

He added, “In terms of final asphalting, binder installation is up to 70 per cent completed.”
Nippert emphasised the team’s commitment to delivering the project on schedule despite environmental hurdles.

“It is all about our ability to persevere and our passion to deliver on our set goals. With that, we can manage challenges as they come up.

“The ceaseless rain in the area remains a big challenge to the work. An extraordinary rainfall in July is not allowing the installation of the base course,” he noted.

He noted that 5.2km of concrete pavement within Bonny Town had been completed, while stone pitching was ongoing.

An additional 5km of asphalt road was “80 per cent completed with asphalt binder,” he added, pending only the wearing course and slope protection.
Nippert clarified that the road remains restricted for construction use only.

“The Bodo-Bonny Road is for Julius Berger Nigeria construction use only, for now, except in very important cases; and its release for public traffic will only be possible after completion,” he said.

The project’s Security Coordinator, Abraham Ikhenoba, confirmed that the rainy season had not deterred the workers.

“Even with the challenging terrains, every hand is on deck. It is in the character of the construction for which we have been known,” he said.

Also commenting, the Secretary of the King Perekule Palace, Amaopusenibo Festus Pepple, said the road was temporarily opened during the Diamond Jubilee celebration of the Amanyanabo of Bonny Kingdom in early June 2025.

According to him, the road was closed again on June 15 to allow work to resume.

“The idea of opening the road was to facilitate easy access for friends and well-wishers of the monarch and the Bonny Kingdom to share in the joy of the celebration.

“But we are done with that now. So, effective Sunday, June 15, 2025, the road will be closed back for construction work to resume so that the company, Julius Berger, can meet up with agreed timelines for the road project,” he said.

benikad:
The Bodo-Bonny Road is for Julius Berger Nigeria construction use only, for now, except in very important cases; and its release for public traffic will only be possible after completion,” he said

AnonPoet:
https://punchng.com/bodo-bonny-road-nears-80-completion-julius-berger/

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

twilliamx:
So they just wait until there is population explosion which will probably happen with this bridge

Exousiang01:
How on Earth can a living human being with a functional brain say a thing like this?
The wide roads you see in developed countries do you think they were built after people started buying cars?
Go and look at the streets of New York, London and other cities as far back as the 1800

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

ogascomax:
If you know there is claimed you won't say that. It might be a small community but it has the presence of several oil companies. Do you know the numbers of people going there will increase. Because of the River some people who would have visited if there was a road prefer not to visit. Tens of thousands of people travel to Bonny every year.

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government buid huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

whitemand4:
You are oblivious of something very unique about bonny island which is the major reason for the construction of the bridge. You said you have been to the place, how come you didn't know about NLNG

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government build huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

AnonPoet:
https://punchng.com/bodo-bonny-road-nears-80-completion-julius-berger/

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government build huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

Psalmspsalms:
I base here in bonny and this is a highly welcomed development.
Bonny island is a small local government in rivers state that is surrounded by water. Crossing over to port Harcourt which is about 1hr journey using speedboat cost #12,000 for just a single person, house rent and the prices of both foodstuffs and electronics here are also things that are entirely unfair. I strongly believe this bridge would make living a bit bearable to some of us. But definitely, I know so many people are fighting for it not to be completed because businesses would be lost. Especially for the boat owners.

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government build huge expensive projects that will be underutilized

Scandium:
Na wa. This road must be a very tough project with a difficult terrain. Because this road construction matter don too tey na. And a whole Julius Berger dey struggle to complete the road. Or is there something else such as finance stopping them from swiftly completely the project over these years?

FreeStuffsNG:
Smh. You don’t get it.

Brass o, Bonny o, Nembe o, even GEJ's place with those tiny fishing settlements in between don't need this kind of huge infrastructural project. You don’t even understand what I mean by social cost. Some people from this area are still living in IDP camps till today since the last flooding disaster of over a year ago! Are these the people who need bridges and huge roads inn the middle of nowhere? They will leave IDP camps to leave on roads and bridges?

I am not debating the utility value of roads and bridges generally but the opportunity cost peculiar to this kind of places and its demographics please.

Below is the picture of ConocoPhillips platform in Alaska that produces more petroleum than the whole of Niger Delta. How many bridges or roads do you see there? You can't even get my point.

O ji shaaro o

FreeStuffsNG:
Tens of thousands of people for a whole year you say? That's even less than the number of people inside University of Lagos( UNILAG) Akọka campus alone or Bodija market in Ibadan on a normal day yet it doesn't take this kind of multi-billion gigantic infrastructure.

For the same ifs you raised, you don’t need to spend these billions and destroy a lot of the ecosystem and the natural barriers against flooding of those small settlements that sometimes have less than 100 residents who are mostly poor fishermen.

It is this kind of projects that the minority tribes in Alaska have fought against for decades. Oil companies operations platforms are not usually next to the settlements but this road will even after many of the settlements have been destroyed for the road they don't need for survival. Kuku say they built road for oil workers

FreeStuffsNG:
I have been to these places and I sometimes wonder who they expect to drive on this huge wide roads and bridges when the population is so few and largely fishermen with subsistence and free-oil money indulgent lifestyle. Is government going to be giving them free vehicles too ni?

This is how government build huge expensive projects that will be underutilized