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Nigerian government set to open second Niger bridge for one month

The Second Niger Bridge will only be accessible to drivers from December 15, 2022, to January 15, 2023, according to the Nigerian government.

This information was provided by Babatunde Fashola (SAN), minister of works and housing, during a Thursday press conference in Abuja.

The minister believes that the move is being made by the Nigerian government to relieve pressure on the bridge, which is currently being used for Christmas celebrations.

He asserted that although the bridge’s building was complete, there was still work to be done to connect it to the main road.

Fashola said, “We have completed work on the bridge, so if you go there now you can walk from one end of the bridge to the other or drive from one end of the bridge to the other but the connecting road that links that bridge to the main highway, is what we want to finish.

“What delayed us is rain and the stop work orders on Mondays in that part of the country.

“The President approved that since the bridge is finished that we should create a access road so that during Christmas you can begin to experience what it would feel like plying the bridge.

“It would be open for traffic going from the West to the East from the 15th December, 2022 to 15th January 2023.

“Let me be clear again: we haven’t finished construction work but we would open it for people to use to relive the pressure from the one bridge, it wouldn’t be available for heavy duty trucks, it would only be small vehicles for now until we finish our work.

“On the 15th January we would reverse that movement for those coming from the east to the west. We have told all the contractors that they shouldn’t open anymore sections for construction i.e. there shouldn’t be any barrier on the roads this season.”

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