{"id":1837595,"date":"2023-12-04T09:50:50","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/?p=1837595"},"modified":"2023-12-04T09:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T08:50:50","slug":"julius-berger-hands-over-second-niger-bridge-to-fg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/julius-berger-hands-over-second-niger-bridge-to-fg\/","title":{"rendered":"Julius Berger Hands Over Second Niger Bridge To FG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525;\">The Federal Government has officially taken over the Second Niger Bridge, a mega-project worth billions of naira, from Julius Berger, the construction giant and contractor.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">At a short event at the bridge\u2019s toll area, Dave Umahi, the Works Minister, praised the project and said that the contractor had fixed the damaged parts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">He also said that any private company that would be willing to finish the other roads, charge tolls, and get back their money could take over the bridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">Umahi said that they were planning how to reduce traffic on the old and new bridges during the holidays.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">The bridge, which is 1.6 kilometres long, connects Anambra and Delta states.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525;\">The idea of the Second Niger Bridge came up during the 1978\u201379 election campaign of Shehu Shagari of the NPN, who was running for president.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has officially taken over the Second Niger Bridge, a mega-project worth billions of naira, from Julius Berger, the construction giant and contractor. At a short event at the bridge\u2019s toll area, Dave Umahi, the Works Minister, praised the project and said that the contractor had fixed the damaged parts. He also said &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":1837596,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[18666,16292,13188,18668,5353,4338,6555],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837595"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1837597,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837595\/revisions\/1837597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1837596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advocate.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}