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The Minister of State II for Power, Works and Housing, Surv. Suleiman Hassan Zarma has lamented the deplorable condition of road and drainage infrastructures at the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) estate, Lugbe, attributing it to critical failures of the planning authorities in time past in upgrading them, giving room to the flagrant abuse of planning regulations by residents. Zarma stated ...

Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing said section one of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is currently at 57 per cent completion. Mr. Kayode Ibrahim, the engineer supervising the project from the ministry, made this known on Tuesday in Lagos. The section one of the project is being handled by Julius Berger, which spans from Ojota in Lagos to Sagamu Interchange. ...

The China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) has concluded the selection of successful applicants for its controversial railway scholarship, sources revealed. The scholarship would involve sponsoring over two score Nigerian undergraduate students in Chinese universities to study railway engineering. It is part of the CCECC’s corporate social responsibility having benefitted from major railway and other construction projects across Nigeria. However, ...

Traditional households in the outskirts of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja are battling on how they can dispose human solid waste from the environment due to lack of toilet facilities. The affected areas, where indiscriminate dumping of refuse and human solid waste exist include; Mpape, Lugbe, Karishi, Jikwoyi, Gudu Dagba, Karimo, Dutse, Bwari, Gwagalada and others. FCT Chairman of ...

THE Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), on Thursday, issued a three-week quit notice ultimatum to some personnel of the Nigeria Police Force, occupying one of its resettlement sites at Galuwyi Shere in Bwari Area Council of FCT, Abuja, to vacate the place with a view to allow contractors complete renovation of the work on schedule. The project, which sits on ...

Ibadan – The site where the people of Saki town in Oyo state proposed to build an ultra-modern fire service station has become a subject of controversy in recent time . At the centre of the controversy is the Honourable Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, who is an illustrious son of the ancient Saki town. While authorities of the Saki West ...

The Ekiti State Government has banned the Minister of Mines and Steel Development, Kayode Fayemi, from holding public office in the state for 10 years for diverting funds meant for construction. The ban followed the indictment of Mr. Fayemi by a judicial commission of inquiry which probed his tenure as governor of Ekiti State between 2010 and 2014. A white ...

NIGER Delta youths under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Congress, NDYC, have tackled the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru Usani, over the completion of the East-West Road. The National Coordinator, NDYC, Comrade Israel Uwejeyan, said the project remains the life wire of the region and nation. Uwejeyan who lamented the poor state of the road said this ...

Babatunde Raji Fashola, the minister of Power, works and Housing Development has on Monday said that president Muhammadu Buhari administration is slowly but it surely delivered his promises to the Nigerians. Fashola stated this when declared open a one-day stakeholders’ meeting on power sector in Lafia the state capital. According to the Minister, “What brings us here today is to ...

The Minister of Finance kemi Adeosun  was challenged on Tuesday by the senate on Federal Government’s persistence on passing the 2018 Budget in January when less than 50 per cent of the 2017 budget was only implemented. The upper chamber also expressed their opposition as to why the 2017 Budget had no correlation with the 2018 Budget. They insisted the ...