Chief George Moghalu, the Managing Director and Chief Executive of National Inland Waterways, NIWA has said the 2nd Niger Bridge would be opened to traffic from February 2022.Moghalu said this at the flag-off of a bathymetric survey of the Aghommili-Mmamu-Ezu-Nkisi-Niger River course, on Tuesday.The brief flag-off was performed by Chief Moghalu at the Aghommili River bank at Ndikelionwu, Orumba North Council of Anambra State.Moghalu said: “By February next year 2022...

The federal government of Nigeria are fulfilling their promise of starting and completing the second Niger bridge. The project  was commissioned some months ago while the construction works started.So far, the work is currently at 44.6% completion. The 1.2km sand filling of the road at the asaba end has reached the height of 2.2m out of the expected 5m. At the Onitsha end, the workers has done enough of sand filling of embarkments thereby completing 44.6% of the...

Just a week after the Nigeria Customs Service unlocked the Illela land border connecting Nigeria and Niger Republic, the government of Niger Republic followed suit by opening its border in Konni for operations last Friday.According to Nuhu Samaila, a source from Konni, Niger Republic, who briefed reporters, the border officially reopened at noon on Friday. Samaila praised the decision of the country's leadership, the military junta, for heeding the people's calls an...