Good News For Travelers To The East This Xmas

There is good news for travelers, especially those from the eastern part of the country who plan to travel home this Christmas and the New Year

good news for travelers is that the Federal government is set to ease their transportation hassles, the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has indicated.

This it plans to do by opening to traffic, the 2nd Niger Bridge from December 15 to January 15, 2023.

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Fashola who broke the news today in the course of the Annual Public Sensitisation on Ember Months programme in Abuja, said work had been completed on the bridge.

He however said the connecting road that links that bridge to the main highway was what is left to be finished, and that otherwise, work had been completed on the project.

“What delayed us is the stop work orders on Mondays, the flood also delayed us but it was a blessing in disguise.

“Because the original level of the flood resistance was based on the 2012 flood report so we have to raise the height of that road.

“Thankfully it didn’t affect the bridge. 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”, Fashola informed. .

“It would be open for traffic going from the west to the east from the 15th Dec, 2022- 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.

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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,” he said.