Akwa Ibom state works commissioner, Mr. Ephraim Inyang-eyen has told Premium Times that the Akwa Ibom State Government has awarded road contracts worth over N100 billion during the first six months Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration. Already, Mr. Inyang-eyen said the governor has received the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to construct Federal Government’s roads in the state. “The road contracts ...

The traffic situation in the country’s centre of excellence keeps getting worse without any visible solution in view. Residents of Lagos state now simply smile through the stress and pain of spending approximately 5hours daily in traffic gridlock just to go about their daily activities. Concerned citizens and experts have raised their voice and proffered solution to the traffic situation ...

This article talks about the top 10 iconic places in the world. What makes these places iconic? Read this piece to get answers There are many iconic places in the world; places that stand out and arouse scintillating memories in your senses. In other words, some places are just out of this world. Below are the top 10 iconic places ...

Ekiti State Governor, Ayodele Fayose, has raised the prices for raw materials for construction such as sands and gravels in an attempt to settle the prolonged crisis over the new tax regime imposed on tippers owners in the state. With the development, the price of a tipper-load of sand has moved from N12,000 to N14,500 while the new approved price ...

Demand for cement will be driven by building of infrastructure and housing development, Executive Director, BUA Group, Kabiru Rabiu has said. He also predicted that cement price will remain stable in the short term and gradually drop in the medium term. He said the firm’s target is to increase its capacity to 10 million metric tonnes per year by 2018. He ...

An Ado-Ekiti High Court has restrained the Ekiti State government and its Housing Corporation from ejecting the embattled residents of Irewolede Estate, pending its ruling on December 9. Governor Ayo Fayose served a notice to eject those who fail to complete their mortgages  by November 30. The defaulters were to be ejected from yesterday. Those ejected on August 5 were ...

Some of us live in ridiculously cheap homes; apartments and houses we would never had thought we would buy or rent at the price we got them. However, what we fail to realise at that instant, probably due to the excitement of getting a new place to live at an amount entirely below your budget is that the house came ...

President Muhammadu Buhari will be in South Africa, Thursday to participate in the Forum on China/Africa Cooperation (FOCAC) taking place in Johannesburg, December 4-5. A statement by the Senior Special Assistant to the President, Garba Shehu, said the President Buhari would at the forum follow up on his meeting with the Chinese leader Xi Jinping, which took place on the ...

The National Emergency Management Agency says over 410 births and 187 marriages were recorded at Internally Displaced Persons Camps in Borno and Adamawa in August and September. This is contained in a statement issued by NEMA and made available on Wednesday in Abuja. The statement quoted Muhammad Sani-Sidi, the Director-General of NEMA, as disclosing this when members of “Bring Back ...

Operatives of the State Security Service on Wednesday stormed the Lagos residence of one of its former Director Generals, Kayode Are, ejecting his family and throwing out his properties. “They are right here in my house,” a distraught Mr. Are told Premium Times on telephone. “They have pulled down the doors, chased my family away and are throwing out our ...