FG Okays N80bn For Second Niger Bridge

The approval was part of the resolve during the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting which held yesterday at the state house in Abuja.

According to the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who was part of meeting, the 12 states include Adamawa, Taraba, Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, Plateau, Osun, Kwara, Kano, Oyo, Enugu and Kaduna.

He said: “Subsequent to the award of further works on the Second Niger Bridge, we have started work now by this approval on the design of the link road that will connect the two states to the bridge.

“The design is expected to be completed  in six months  and we will start procurement and as the bridge advances we can then connect the two states. The contract sum is N150.840 million.

“The second is approval for 12 roads in various states.  The roads are at the cost of N80 billion.

“The approval is also for the engineering and consultancy design for access roads 1 and 2  to link Asaba in Delta State and Onitsha in Anambra State to link the Second Niger Bridge project.

The minister also acknowledged that the Council gave approval for various power projects.

Again, Minister of FCT, Bello Mohammed, stated that three key infrastructure projects were also approved by the council. The projects include the Abuja Mass Transit Lot 1B (26.77km) which is from Ring Road I; the construction of remaining part of Lot 1A (5.76km); rolling stocks and workshop equipment for maintenance of trains.

The $1.79bn projects awarded to China Civil Engineering Construction Company, CCECC, would be funded by NEXIM Bank. Other projects for the FCT are Jahi District Infrastructure, which cost was put at N19.473bn and a 5km road to link Ring Road III to Wasa Junction with Karshi-Ara-Apo Road estimated to cost N2.454bn.’’