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The Federal Government has so far released a total of N116.72 billion for the much-politicised Second Niger Bridge, a project valued at N414 billion and expected to be delivered next year, The Guardian has learnt.
It was also gathered that the project was awarded as a “lump sum contract” without provision for cost variation. The Head of Corporate Communications, the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA), the project fund manager, Titilope Olubiyi, told The Guardian, yesterday, that the Federal Government would fund part of the cost while the balance would be sourced from the debt market. He added that a management company would be established on completion as the project would be concessioned.
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Okowa’s CPS distributes face masks to schools
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Chief Press Secretary to Delta State Governor, Mr. Ifeajika Olise (right) Presenting Facemask to the Vice Principal, Basic Secondary School ,Illah, Mrs. Okelue Eucheria.
The Chief Press Secretary to Governor Ifeanyi Okowa of Delta, Mr Olisa Ifeajika, on Friday, distributed face masks to staff and pupils of public schools in Illah community, Oshimili North Local Government Area of the state.
He said while presenting the masks to the four public schools in the community that the gesture was at the backdrop of the resurgence of the pandemic and the vulnerability of school children and teachers.
Delta Governor Ifeanyi Okowa says until the second Niger bridge project is completed, the high density of vehicular traffic at the Asaba and Onitsha ends of the bridge will remain a recurring decimal especially during the festive season.
Okowa stated this at Government House Asaba during a press conference with the Corps Marshal of the Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) Boboye Oyeyemi.
The governor said the state government has concluded plans to set up a taskforce comprising the police, the military, FRSC officials and the Delta State Traffic Management Authority to handle the traffic situation.
He called on the military and the police to dismantle their check points around the bridge so as not to frustrate any action aimed at easing off the traffic gridlock, even as he said his administration will not cease to assist the corps with logistics in traffic management.
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Okowa calls for completion of second Niger bridge
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Delta Governor, Senator Dr. Ifeanyo Okowa (3rd left), Corps Marshall, Boboye Oyeyemi (right), Secretary to Delta State Government (SSG), Chiedu Ebie Esq. behind the Governor, Commissioner for Transport, Hon Oviemuno Oghoore (2nd left), and the Commissioner for Works, Chief James Augoye, during a press briefing by Governor Ifeanyi Okowa and the Federal Road Safety Boss, Corps Marshall, Boboye Oyeyemi in Government House Asaba.
Delta State Governor Dr. Ifeanyi Okowa on Tuesday said that until the second Niger bridge project is completed, the high density of vehicular traffic at the Asaba and Onitsha ends of the bridge would continue to occur especially at yuletide season.
[FILES] 2020 Progress Report on the Second Niger Bridge which comprises 1.6 km long River Niger Bridge; 10.3km Highway, Owerri Interchange and Toll Station. Photo; TWITTER/FMWHNIGTo ensure that no project is abandoned in the Southeast geo-political zone, the Federal Government has urged all contractors handling such projects to complete them.
Team Lead of the Southeast comprising Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Abia and Enugu states for the physical verification exercise of the Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), Charles Abana, stated this yesterday while inspecting some projects at the Federal Medical Centre (FMC), Owerri, Imo State, in line with the FRC Act 2007. x
Abana hinted that his team had visited 10 of 11 projects in the zone, including the Second Niger Bridge in Onitsha, Anambra State.