| The Daily Crucible | Wednesday, October 19, 2022
By Jane Okafor, Abuja
Federal Government of Nigeria(FGN) on Wednesday said the Second Niger bridge itself has been “finished” and “people can walk through the bridge now unimpeded” unimpeded.
Speaking through the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, FGN said what remains to be completed is the four-kilometer stretch link road from Asaba side of it.
“The first thing we did when we came into power was we expanded our budget on road infrastructure, sought alternative sources of funding through SUKUK, Infrastructure Tax Credit Scheme," it said.
The FGN aide and former governor of Lagos State made this known at the ongoing ministerial retreat in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He said his ministry completed 12 road projects spanning about 896km, commissioned and handed over to different communities.
According to him, the government is executing 83 road rehabilitation projects in federal tertiary institutions across the country with 66 projects completed and 46 already commissioned.
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