THIRD MAINLAND BRIDGE TO GET STREET LIGHTS IN APRIL

The Federal Roads Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has said that
installation of street lights on the Third Mainland Bridge will be completed in
April. Making this known when he spoke to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), an
engineer with the agency, Mr, Oladimeji Abayomi, said in Lagos
Wednesda   that contractors handling the project were currently
tracing the faults and clearing them.

He said that more lights would come
on every week until all the faults were cleared. “The contractor is on ground,
the work is ongoing. They are tracing faults underground and laying cables.

“When you are tracing a problem, you may meet a bigger one that needs to be
solved. Anytime from March or April this year, the work would be completed,’’
he said.

He decried the power outages and outrageous billing system, which he said, was
the bane affecting the lights on the bridge. Abayomi explained that the agency
relied more on generators to power the lights from five different substations
in the state.

He said the agency had to continue to
supplement Power Holding Company of Nigeria (PHCN) with generators pending when
its plan to change to solar energy materialised. Minister of Works, Mr. Mike
Onolememen, had in October 2012, directed a team of engineers to tackle
electrical problem on one of the expansion