By Emmanuel Olorunsola
The Federal Government has announced the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos State for five months.
According to the Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, the partial closure will begin from Friday midnight July 24, 2020 to January 23, 2021.
The minister stated at a press conference in Abuja on Tuesday that between 2015 and 2019, the government undertook a survey of all the bridges in Nigeria to determine their conditions and the urgency of repairs that should be done on them.
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“Some were critical, others were less critical and the Third Mainland Bridge is one of those bridges. At the time we estimated that we will need about N277bn to do all of that work over a period of four years.
“We didn’t get the budget that we expected, but we got something and we have started some work over the last few years. Currently, we have intervened on 37 bridges across the country, doing maintenance work and all of that,” Fashola said.
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