President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to commission the 2nd Niger Bridge and six other legacy projects completed by the Federal Ministry of Works and Housing across the country.
Buhari’s Spokesman, Femi Adesina, in an issied statement, said the move is a follow-through on his administration’s determination to upgrade and expand the nation’s stock of infrastructure.
The projects to be commissioned comprise three major bridges, three Federal Secretariats and a road.
It also reiterated that the event will be headlined by the 2nd Niger Bridge, which was conceptualised in 2005.
The statement explained that in 2014, there was an attempt to begin the project through Public-Private-Partnership, PPP, but this was not successful. The construction began in 2016 with the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund, PIDF.
Other projects slated for commissioning are the Loko-Oweto Bridge across River Benue, to link Benue to Nasarawa State, and the Ikom Bridge in Cross-River State, while the Road project is the completed section of the over 200-kilometres of Kano-Kaduna Dual Carriage Expressway and three new Federal Secretariats.
