Why Tinubu’s restoration of the Niger crossing merits gratitude, not jibes

Nations are judged not only by the monuments they erect but by the discipline with which they preserve what already sustains them.
The First Niger Bridge, completed in 1965 and linking Onitsha in Anambra State to Asaba in Delta State, is no ordinary span of steel and concrete.
It is the oldest artery of commerce between the Southeast and the rest of the federation, a structure on which the livelihoods of traders, students, civil servants and families have rested for six decades.

When vandals stripped its expansion joints of their bolts and nuts, and the bridge was closed on the 7th of September, the nation was confronted with a prospect too grave for levity; the strangulation of t...