 FG says Second Niger bridge completed Â
The Federal Government says the construction of the Second Niger Bridge linking Anambra and Delta states is completed.
Babatunde Fashola, the minister of works and housing, said this at a ministerial press briefing in Abuja on Wednesday, adding the bridge would soon be open for public use.
According to him, what remains to be completed is the four-kilometer link road on the Asaba side.
TheCornet reports that the Second Niger bridge is 1.6 km (0.99 mi) long and furnished with other ancillary infrastructure including a 10.3 km (6.4 mi) highway, Owerri interchange and a toll station all at Obosi city.
The Second Niger Bridge crosses the Niger between the cities of Asaba, the capital of Delta State in the west and Onitsha, in the east.
The phrase “Second Niger Bridge“, which has been used as an established term in Nigerian politics since the 1980s, is misleading. In fact, there are already seven major bridges over the Niger in Nigeria alone (not to mention in countries like Niger or Benin).
NB: Addition from Wikipedia
