Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has announced that the partial closure of the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos begins from midnight of July 24.
He stated this at a press briefing in Abuja on Tuesday, adding that the Federal Government, between 2015 and 2019, surveyed all bridges in the country to determine their conditions and the urgency of repairs needed.
“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 N277 billion to do all of that work over a period of four years,” he said.
“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.”
