Niger Expends N3.1bn On Roads

The Niger state Commissioner of works, Enginer Abubakar Baba Jibreel,  says the state government has concluded plans to expend the sum of   N3.1 billion on critical infrastructure across the three senatorial zones of the state .
He disclosed this yesterday in Minna while addressing journalists after the state executive council meeting, adding that N58m of the amount will be spent on the construction of access roads in Gauraka in Tafa local government area of the state and the dualization of the Bida-Dokoza road which will cost N1.7billion.
The commissioner who was represented by the Commissioner for Livestock and Fisheries Development, Dr Isah Yahaya Vatsa, disclosed that the upgrading of works on the Lagos road in Kontagora to enable the project meet the status of a Trunk ‘A’ road will cost N84m.
He said that contracts for all the projects have been awarded and work has commenced on them but charged the contracting firms handling the jobs to work in accordance with the specifications to complete the project within the time given.
Also, the Managing Director of the Niger state Road Maintenance Agency, Engineer Umar Sani, said that the agency has spent over N600m on the rehabilitation and maintenance of failed sections of roads in many parts of the state.
The  projects he said  the agency handled  were the rehabilitation of the Minna to Bida road  and that of a bridge at Kpakungu in the outskirt of Minna the state capital.
He said that the agency constructed the some access roads at the College of Education Minna  in preparation for the upgrading of the institution to a Specialized university of education.