{"id":61607,"date":"2022-06-22T21:05:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-22T20:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=61607"},"modified":"2022-06-23T06:43:05","modified_gmt":"2022-06-23T05:43:05","slug":"fashola-to-flag-off-nembe-brass-road-project-in-bayelsa-morrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/fashola-to-flag-off-nembe-brass-road-project-in-bayelsa-morrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Fashola To Flag-Off Nembe-Brass Road Project In Bayelsa, Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61609 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220622-WA0047-234x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"234\" height=\"300\">The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, will on Thursday flag off construction of the Nembe-Brass road project in Bayelsa State.<\/p>\n<p>The long-awaited project, which had been on the drawing board of the federal government for decades, is being undertaken by the Governor Douye Diri administration in the state and has awarded its construction to Setraco Nigeria Limited.<\/p>\n<p>The first phase covering a distance of 21 kilometres with 10 bridges is estimated at N54.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61610 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220622-WA0044.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"187\"><\/p>\n<p>Governor Diri said on Wednesday during the 79th state executive council meeting in Government House, Yenagoa, that the project had a historic significance and economic importance to the state and the country.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>Located on the Brass Island are an oil export terminal operated by oil major, Nigerian Agip Oil Company as well as the ongoing Brass Fertilizer and Petrochemical Company project.<\/p>\n<p>The governor called on well-meaning sons and daughters of the state as well as leaders of Bayelsa East Senatorial District to be present at the flag-off ceremony.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-61611 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/IMG-20220622-WA0046-248x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"248\" height=\"300\"><\/p>\n<p>He said: &#8220;Let me use this medium to invite and call on all of us from the eastern senatorial district, particularly communities in Nembe and Brass, as we kick-start the construction of this historic road project&#8221;.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, will on Thursday flag off construction of the Nembe-Brass road project in Bayelsa State.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,624],"tags":[8927,155],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-61607","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-news","category-politics","tag-babatunde-raji-fashola","tag-bayelsa-state"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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