For nearly 70 years, Bonny Island remained one of Nigeria’s most economically strategic yet physically isolated communities, accessible only by water or air despite its immense contribution to the nation’s oil and gas industry. Today, that long-standing isolation has finally come to an end with the completion of the Bodo-Bonny Road, a landmark project delivered through a partnership between the Federal Government and Nigeria LNG Limited (NLNG). From decades of unfulfilled promises to the engineering feat that made it possible, Blessing Ibunge writes that the road is transforming mobility, trade, investment and livelihoods, while reconnecting Bonny to the Nigerian mainland