{"id":8733,"date":"2023-12-25T20:03:58","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/enugu-state-govt-postpones-reopening-of-collapsed-bridge\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T20:03:58","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T20:03:58","slug":"enugu-state-govt-postpones-reopening-of-collapsed-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/enugu-state-govt-postpones-reopening-of-collapsed-bridge\/","title":{"rendered":"Enugu State Govt postpones reopening of collapsed bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The Enugu State Government said it has deferred the reopening of one lane of the collapsed Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway Bridge following expert advice.<\/p>\n<p>The government said that it received advice from the project manager, Mr Mohammed Fadi, not to reopen the bridge \u201cfor safety purposes\u201d until it had been fully completed.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner for Information and Communication Aka-Eze Aka made this disclosure in a statement issued in Enugu and made available to newsmen on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST recalls that the Commissioner for Works, Gerald Otiji, had said at a post-State Executive Council meeting news briefing on December 25 that one lane of the bridge would be reopened for motorists to ease traffic during the Yuletide celebrations.<\/p>\n<p>However, Aka explained that the bridge would no longer be reopened as announced.<\/p>\n<p>He said, based on the expert advice, it should, on completion, be subjected to a series of integrity tests to certify it fit for public use.<\/p>\n<p>Enugu State Govt postpones reopening of collapsed bridge<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Enugu State Government said it has deferred the reopening of one lane of the collapsed Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway Bridge&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1757,15],"tags":[137,180],"class_list":["post-8733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enugu","category-news","tag-enugu","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}