Babatunde Fashola who spoke in Abuja in an interactive session with newsmen, said that the contract was awarded to Julius Berger Construction Company and that it would be funded under the Presidential Infrastructure Development Fund (PIDF).
According to him, funding the project under PIDF means that work will no longer stop on account of lack of funding.
The minister said that the contract for the main work on the Second Niger Bridge was awarded after the completion of the four phases of the project.
He said that the early works were preliminary projects to be completed before the main work, adding that all the early works were done in the river and not visible from the existing bridge.
According to him, with the award of the main work, there will be a lot of piling works in the water and that is what people will see.
He said that the Lagos-Ibadan expressway and Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road projects would also be funded under PIDF.
Source: NAN.
