FG kicks off River Niger dredging

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The Minister of Trans­portation, Rotimi Amaechi, will today kick off the maintenance dredging of the River Ni­ger from Ajaokuta in Kogi State to Onitsha in Anambra State.
This was disclosed on Thursday in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital by the National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA).
The maintenance exercise on the already dredged chan­nels, according to NIWA, is to ensure all-year navigation of the River Niger waterways.
In a statement signed by NIWA’s Corporate Affairs General Manager in Lokoja, Mr Tayo Fadile, he said that Amaechi will launch the ex­ercise today.
Fadile explained that the minister will be accompa­nied by Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, to the Julius Berger Jetty, Ajaokuta for the event at 10 am.
In 2009, the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in a bid to boost socio-economic activities through the water­ways, kicked off the dredging of the Lower River Niger and construction of seven addi­tional seaports in Agenebode (Edo State), Idah (Kogi), Yenagoa (Bayelsa), Baro (Ni­ger), Lokoja (Kogi), Aguata (Anambra), and Ogbabe (Abia State).

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