President Bola Tinubu’s government has stated that the Federal Government has granted 30% of the funds needed to begin construction of two bypasses on the second Niger bridge, which will connect the Asaba-Benin and Enugu-Onitsha dual carriageways. This occurred as the federal government promised yesterday that between December 2025 and March 2026, it will finish the repair of the East-West Road, which was seriously destroyed by a flood in Rivers State years ago.
David Umahi, Minister of Works, announced this to press during his tour of ongoing federal government road construction in Rivers State. “I just received an alert that 30 percent mobilisation has been paid on Abuja-Kano, sections 1 and 3, and I’m overjoyed, and I applaud the President for this.
“Good news for Niger Delta and Anambra people: the second Niger bridge, finally, the sections 2a and 2b, are being handled by CCECC and CJC, and the President has released 30% mobilisation to them. “I commend the President.
Finally, this project will be completed, and we will use the already completed second Niger bridge, which will benefit the entire country,” Umahi said. The Minister, who conducted a two-day inspection of federal government projects in the State and beyond, visited the ongoing Eleme-Onne road construction by RCC, the Bodo-Bonny major road projects by Julius Berger, the Rivers-Bayelsa section of East-West Road reconstruction by SETRACO, and the rehabilitation of the Enugu-Port Harcourt dual carriageway, section IV: (Aba – Port Harcourt road) by CCECC.
Umahi, who expressed pleasure with the contractors’ work thus far, assured Nigerians of Tinubu’s commitment to the development of the Niger Delta region. During the inspection of the East-West Road, Umahi stated, “I am fulfilling one of Mr. President’s directives to raise local contractors because we have a lot of contracts and expatriate contractors cannot fill them all, so local contractors are being raised, and this is one of them.
“I am really pleased with what they have done and are doing at the end of the road to keep the road from moving. “The moment you restrain the road from moving at either end, then the stability of the road is assured and I keep saying that the solution to the problem of instant failures of East-West road from Lokoja to here and down to Cross River is concrete road and so I’m happy that the president is addressing them.”
