Niger Bridge Closure: Police orders more security deployment to secure alternative routes

The Anambra State Police Command has ordered the deployment of operatives to alternate routes utilized by travellers arsenic a effect of the closure of the First Niger Bridge.

The Federal Government past play announced the closure of the First Niger Bridge beginning Monday, the 7th of September, for repair works.

The State Commissioner of Police, Nnanna Oji Ama, who inspected the compliance of motorists with the closure and usage of the diversionary routes, said determination was a request for further deployment of operatives to ticker the alternate routes.

The spokesperson of the command, who spoke to journalists, said the CP inspected the span alongside heads of different sister information agencies successful the state.

He said: “The Commissioner of Police, Anambra State Command, Nnanna Oji Ama, today, 7th September 2026, personally led heads of sister information agencies and different strategical information commanders connected an on-the-spot appraisal of the bridge, adjoining areas and identified diversionary routes.

“The appraisal was aimed astatine identifying imaginable security, postulation and public-safety challenges arising from the closure and putting successful spot proactive measures to mitigate them.

“Consequently, the Command has deployed a Police-led Joint Security Team to strategical locations astir the bridge, diversionary routes and different captious points to support ...