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The Federal Government has threatened to revoke the remodelling contract of the domestic wing of the Port Harcourt Airport due to slow pace of work by the contractor. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known to journalists during an inspection of ongoing construction at the Port Harcourt International Airport yesterday. He said that work on the ...

Contrary to claims by opposition parties, the Kwara State Government says it has always made use of local contractors in the execution of road projects in the state. The Senior Special Assistant on Media and Communication to Governor Abdulfatah Ahmed, Dr. Muyideen Akorede, said this while featuring on a radio programme: “Ibi Abashe de,” on Tuesday, alongside the Publicity Secretary ...

Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Tuesday opposed a proposed law seeking roads rehabilitation of one per cent from Consolidated Revenue Fund to Federal Roads Maintenance Agency. Fashola expressed the objection at a public hearing on two Bills seeking to restructure FERMA and increase its funding. The session was organised by House of Representatives Committee on FERMA. ...

The idea was initiated in 2016 by the government through the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola under the Rural Electricity Agency (REA). Nine universities selected for the first phase of the project are: Federal University Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (FUNAI), Ebonyi; Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka; Federal University of Petroleum Resources, Effurun (FUPRE); and the University of Lagos. Others ...

The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) has commenced rehabilitation works on some selected Federal roads in four states of the South west, the agency’s zonal director, Mrs Mary Adeniran, has said. Adeniran said in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Tuesday in Ibadan that the rehabilitation work was in line with the Presidential Order for rapid ...

Members of the House of Representatives Committee on Works on Tuesday put the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola on the spot, demanding details on the nature of concession agreement on the Second Niger Bridge and the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. Grilling the Minister in a question and answer session that last for two hours, the lawmakers were taken through ...

A housing expert, Mr Festus Adebayo, has said Federal Government needs to make the Family Home Fund (FHF) scheme effective in 2018 to alleviate the housing challenges in the country. Adebayo, the Managing Director of FESADEB Communications Ltd., convener of the annual Abuja International Housing, made the call on Tuesday in Abuja. “Federal government needs to alleviate housing challenges”, he ...

The Enugu State Government has announced plans to intervene on the abandoned and dilapidated road on Ehamufu-Nkalagud Isi-Uzo Local Government Area of the state to rejuvenate the economic potential of the people and make evacuation of farm produce from the mainly agrarian community less cumbersome. The facility abandoned since the early 1980s and coursing through Nkalagu (Ebonyi State) – Ehamufu-Obollo ...

The famous Abraham Manslow’s Hierarchy of Needs places shelter as a basic need of every human. In other words without shelter man is less bothered about social activities, self-esteem or other offerings of the society. Sadly, what should have been a basic provision has become a luxury in Nigeria. To resolve the deficit in  sector, efforts to Nigeria’s housing increase stocks are ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has ordered an investigation into the allegations that the former First Lady, Patience Jonathan’s property was demolished in Abuja. Justice Nnamdi Dimgba gave the directive on Monday following submissions by Mrs. Jonathan’s counsel, Mike Ozekhome, that the property was demolished by an agency of the Federal Government. The building belonging to Aruera Reachout Foundation/Women for ...