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Mar 24 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Cost of Pres. @MBuhari’s #PIDFund projects:

1. Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Expressway (375km): 797 Billion Naira

2. Second Niger Bridge (11.59km): 206 Billion Naira

3. Lagos-Ibadan Expressway (127km): 310 Billion Naira

Total: 1.3 TRILLION NAIRA

#StateHouseBriefing #GovtAtWorkNG
When will the #PIDFund projects be completed?

According to BRF:

Lagos Ibadan Exp and Second Niger Bridge on course to be completed this year 2022.

Main Carriageway of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Exp scheduled for completion by Q2 2023; Ancillary works will be completed later.
Infrastructure = Jobs, Economic Growth, Investment.
BRF: There is currently NO Private sector money inside Second Niger Bridge. Everything spent so far is @NigeriaGov money. @nsia_nigeria talking to some investors who want to bring money, but they haven’t brought it yet. So it’s all @NigeriaGov-financed so far.
#StateHouseBriefing
FACT-CHECKING
Existing River Niger Bridge was built almost 60 years ago (opened 1965). PMB is building the Second one.

Lagos-Ibadan Exp built in the 1970s, PMB is fully rebuilding it for 1st time since then.

Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Exp built in the 1980s, PMB fully rebuilding it, all 375km.
Check out #HDMIng - another landmark Buhari Administration Infrastructure initiative.

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Mar 24
Nigerian ‘analysts’ will take the cost of a road or railway & divide by length & jump to ridiculous conclusions. Without accounting for number of lanes/tracks, topography, compensation, accompanying infra (bridges), etc.

It’s a very illiterate thing to do. Stop it!

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Look at the Abuja-Kaduna Rail vs the Lagos Ibadan Rail, for example.

ABJKD = 186km of SINGLE track.

LAGIB = 158km of DOUBLE track = 158 X 2 for actual (main) track length = >300km.

Surely common sense should tell you to factor all these in before comparing relative costs?
Also, for example, its a given that, on ‘like for like’ basis, road projects in the swampy terrains of the Niger Delta tend to cost more than in drier terrain of the North.

Read Julius Berger’ notes about building the Bodo-Bonny Bridges/Road - “the most difficult of terrains…” Image
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