FG To Toll Second Niger Bridge – Fashola
Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works and Housing, has stated that the temporarily opened Second Niger Bridge will be tolled.
Fashola said that the bridge will be tolled to help make sure that the infrastructure is maintained to serve for several years.
The Minister disclosed this during an interview with Channel Television’s Sunrise Daily on Wednesday.
He added that the delay in delivering the project was due to the relocation of transmission lines connecting the East to the West across the Niger River and the sit-at-home order by the Indigenous People of Biafra.
He gave the expected date to deliver the project as April or May 2023.
Fashola said, “Inevitably, the bridge will be tolled but that is the job of the NSIA because we must make sure the bridge is pro...