Nigeria: If Niger Bridge Collapses

14 October 2008
editorial

Governor Peter Obi's cry to the Senate Committee on Works about the importance of the second Niger Bridge pales beside the imminent collapse of the existing bridge, which is a patch up of the 43-year-old bridge blown up during the civil war after Biafran troops marched on Ore.

Last July, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, a permanent secretary in the Office of Secretary to the Government of the Federation, and a former permanent secretary in the Ministry of Works, told the same Senate Committee on Works that the Niger Bridge could collapse soon.

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