Nigeria: The Power of Infrastructure

1 November 2013

From the moment its conception was publicised, I had looked forward to the realization of the Lekki-Ikoyi Bridge with eager anticipation. Not that I had heard anything about its architectural design (although I was of course familiar with the antecedents of the assigned contractor).

But the simple prospect of hurdling the lagoon and bypassing the perennially congested Ozumba Mbadiwe en route to or from Lekki was too tantalizing to be casual about. So I watched with impatience over the four long years it took for all the structural 'i's and 't's to be dotted and crossed respectively.

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