THE Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, says work on the 2nd Niger Bridge was 91 percent completed.
Fashola, who stated this yesterday during the weekly ministerial briefing at the State House, Abuja, said work on the project was delayed due to the Covid-19 lockdown and ENDSARS protests.
The Federal Government had earlier fixed February this year for the completion of the project.
Fashola listed the 2nd Niger Bridge, Lagos-Ibadan and the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria highways as the main projects being executed by the ministry through the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF).
He said: “The Lagos-Ibadan expressway will be delivered this year, subject to how we navigate the pricing issues. Second Niger Bridge also this year, while the main carriageway of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano expressway is scheduled for completion by the second quarter of 2023 before the President leaves office at the end of his tenure.”
The minister, however, ruled out the completion of ancillary work on the Abuja- Kano road next year.
He added: “There is ancillary work that cannot be finished next year; the service lanes and truck parks, toll plazas but that will continue because the funding is properly structured and the NSI is trying to mobilize some private capital now into the project.”
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