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Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 9:29am On Dec 15, 2022 |
When President Muhammadu Buhari on October 8, 2020 made a promise to Nigerians that his administration would complete and commission the Second Niger Bridge before the end of his tenure in 2023, not many people took his promise seriously. And the reason why many people took the promise made by the President with a pinch of salt is not far-fetched. Let’s delve a little into history. The Second Niger Bridge was first proposed during the 1968/69 political campaign by the National Party of Nigeria. In 1987, after warning about the state of the existing River Niger Bridge by the then Minister for Works and Housing Abubakar Umar, General Ibrahim Babangida challenged the local engineers to design the Second Niger Bridge. The local engineers rose to the challenge and through the Nigerian Society of Engineers subsequently delivered a masterplan. Unfortunately, the turmoil that precipitated the end of Babangida’s administration in 1993 stalled the plan. Under the subsequent military governments, the project received little attention. Upon the return to civilian rule on May 29, 1999, President Olusegun Obasanjo promised to deliver a second Niger River bridge. However, Obasanjo’s administration did not carry out any major activity on the project until five days before he handed over in 2007 to the administration of Umaru Musa Yar’ Adua. That was when he flagged off the project in Asaba in Delta State. The handing over of the project by Obasanjo to Yar’ Adua made his administration to effectively inherit a ₦58.6bn proposed cost for a six lane, 1.8 km tolled bridge, which was to be completed in three-and-half years. Based on the funding structure then, the bridge was to be financed under a public private partnership (PPP) with 60 per cent of the funding coming from the contractor, Gitto Group; 20 per cent from the federal government and 10 per cent from the Anambra and Delta State Governments. Unfortunately, the subsequent death of Yar’ Adua on May 5, 2010 marred the progress of the project. However, in August 2012, the Federal Executive Council under the administration of Goodluck Jonathan, approved a contract worth ₦325m for the final planning and design of the bridge. The project was subsequently awarded to Julius Berger for a contract sum of N206bn, to be implemented by the Nigerian Sovereign Investment Authority with funding from the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund. Before then, during the 2011 general election in Nigeria, Jonathan had while campaigning for office of the President promised that if elected, he would deliver the project before the end of his term in 2015. https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/04/04/second-niger-bridge-buharis-iconic-gift-to-south-east-region/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2fNpjUZMj8 Nlfpmod mynd44 Seun lalasticlala 1 Like
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Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by God1000(m): 9:31am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Buhari did not initiate any project, he's only completing the ongoing ones by his predecessors 4 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Beremx(f): 9:31am On Dec 15, 2022 |
That’s the only meaningful project Buhari has executed in the SE. I give kudos to him for completing the bridge. That doesn’t mean the SE will vote for Tinubu anyway. 4 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 9:32am On Dec 15, 2022 |
God1000:Watch the video before you say that please. This is history. 7 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by adecz: 9:33am On Dec 15, 2022 |
After 8 years and borrowing over N45trillion, this is the only major project of APC in the whole country. A project that cost only N350 billion. Where the remaining money go❓❓ 2 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Dreal1247: 9:33am On Dec 15, 2022 |
I'm just imagining the Christmas celebration without the perennial gridlock on the Niger Bridge that lasts for more than a day. At times, the hold up extends close to Koca Junction in Asaba. Also the daily gridlock that lasts for hours especially in the evening will now become a thing of the past. Kudos to the Government of the day. It is a welcome development. 3 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by SmartPolician: 9:34am On Dec 15, 2022 |
God1000: You people should stop making this argument because it's very senseless, to say the least. Government is a continuum. If a government comes into power, throws away all the ongoing projects he met and initiates new ones, the taxpayers are the biggest losers. However, I hate all the attention this bridge gets even though it's going to be the only federal bridge that will be tolled in this country. Even the almighty 3rd Mainland Bridge that's in Lagos is not tolled. 6 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by pafra(m): 9:35am On Dec 15, 2022 |
We know the government is bad. As for the bridge, let's give it to PMB. He could have decided to stop the project. Peter Obi for president |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Svoboda(m): 9:38am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Beremx: Tinubu can do without votes from the south east and still win 2023. 3 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Beremx(f): 9:41am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Svoboda:Tinubu will only win if APC rigs the elections. Unfortunately for you, Buhari doesn’t seem he’s going to tolerate it. His body language and comments on the election says it all. 1 Like |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Jostoman: 9:41am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Well done baba buhari and We need to acknowledge the past government that started it also. |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by tolufase: 9:45am On Dec 15, 2022 |
God1000: He doesn't need to initiate a new project when we have over a hundred abandoned projects across the country. After all, the government is a continuity. , 2 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Svoboda(m): 9:46am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Beremx: Apc is the most grassrooted, intact party in Nigeria. It doesn't need rigging to win. Elections are mainly won in the rurals and the apc marshalls those territories without a serious challenge. 4 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by PandoraObi: 9:51am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Beremx:The south east votes do not stop buhari, it can't stop Tinubu, Peter Obi went into hiding after shameful Kogi campaign 2 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by StrongAlphMale: 9:52am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Jonathan did this project not buhari. God bless GEJ. God bless our incoming president peter Obi 1 Like |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by West1side: 9:57am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Exactly Luke his body did in Imo Beremx: |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 10:17am On Dec 15, 2022 |
StrongAlphMale:Watch the video and learn...... The project goes back to 1959..... 2 Likes |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by StrongAlphMale: 10:19am On Dec 15, 2022 |
herkeem: Why then is buhari and APC taking Glory for what they didn't do? bros, How much is a bag of rice in your area? How's the cost of living in your locality there? People are dying of Hunger and you're talking about bridge ? Bridge that GEJ initiated and built? 1 Like |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Ifearnoevil: 10:24am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Buhari or anybody did not build any bridge. The only people that built the bridge are they people that will be paying toll on the bridge. |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 10:33am On Dec 15, 2022 |
StrongAlphMale:The conception started by 1958 by the then candidate of NPN. 1 Like |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 10:50am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Dreal1247:Real kudos. |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 11:41am On Dec 15, 2022 |
pafra:True...... |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by ZombieTERROR: 11:43am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Beremx: Buhari never asked anyone to vote for Tinubu he said Nigerians should vote wisely... |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 11:54am On Dec 15, 2022 |
ZombieTERROR:Wisely can mean Tinubu Na...... |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Nobody: 11:57am On Dec 15, 2022 |
Well done Bubu ! The US is impressed
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Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 12:11pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
Himtulie247:How does this concern the US? |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Nobody: 12:13pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
herkeem:The same wayit concerned you |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by herkeem: 12:21pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
Himtulie247:Hmmmmmm..... Okay o |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by ZombieTERROR: 2:24pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
herkeem: God gave you a functional brain.. void of tribalism and religious bigotry... use it from today
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Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Ogbuefi2020: 2:49pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
Svoboda:You will soon find out the difference between two horse race and four horse race |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Friend22(m): 2:54pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
God1000:This cheap lies you keep selling to zombies so as to deprive a man of his honest works won't be overlooked! Whether you like it or not a Fulani man you love to hate built a bridge in less than 7 years for you which your brother-GEJ couldn't build in 5years. |
Re: Video: Second Niger Bridge: Buhari’s Iconic Gift To South-East Region? by Friend22(m): 2:56pm On Dec 15, 2022 |
Beremx: Who needs SE votes when you are not up.to the total voting population of Kano,Kastina and Kaduna combined! Keep living in delusion! |
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