Tag: Ministry of Works

Fix Failed Onitsha-Owerri Road, Rights Groups Tell FG, Anambra State Govt

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Alphonsus Nweze Civil Society groups have called on Federal Government and Anambra State Government to immediately begin rehabilitation of Onitsha end of Onitsha-Owerri Road, which has become an unpassable and death trap to the users. The Campaign for Democracy (CD) and Human Rights, Liberty Access and Peace Defenders’ Foundation (HURIDE) made the call in a joint statement they made available to newsmen in Awka, the Anambra State capital, weekend. In the statement signed by the Chairman of CD in South East and Executive Director, HURIDE, Dede Uzor A Uzor, the…

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Second Niger Bridge: FG run out of cash, alter master plan

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Alphonsus Nweze As federal government construct entrance and exit road for the second Niger Bridge at the head of the old one, drivers plying the old Niger Bridge have raised the alarm that the latest exit road constructed at Oko Junction will create more problem for the users of Benin-Asaba-Onitsha Expressway than solving it. The Second Niger Bridge bye-pass in Asaba was supposed to have passed through near the Asaba Airport to cut-off the entire Asaba town so as to avoid traffic gridlock which the second Niger Bridge was billed…

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