Lagos State government has signed a $135 million (N85 billion) partnership agreement with a foreign firm as part of its new waste management policy. The Guardian reports that the Commissioner for the Environment, Dr. Babatunde Adejare said the partnership is under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) and will last for four years. He said the investment, which would kick off ...

With adequate policies, Nigeria could surmount her poor electricity supply through the tonnes of wastes that are generated on daily basis in the country. The Guardian reports that this was contained in a communiqué by the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), at the end of the African Engineering conference on energy held last week in Uyo, Akwa Ibom. According to The ...

New Telegraph reports that Oghior community in Udu Local Government Area of Delta State, demanded a compensation of N855 million from the Nigeria Petroleum Development Company (NPDC) for allegedly failing to contain an oil spillage that occurred in September from militants or its operations in the community. According to New Telegraph, the President-General of the community, Hon. Wisdom Ghagara, while warning ...

The Nation reports that President Muhammadu Buhari, on Tuesday said that his administration will heavily utilize talents and skills of local engineers to rebuild ailing infrastructure across the country. According to The Nation, he described Nigerian engineers as ‘‘competent and cost effective.’’ Speaking at an investiture ceremony by the Nigerian Academy of Engineers (NAE) at the State House, President Buhari said the well-trained ...

The Nation reports that the Comptroller General of Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) Col Hameed Ali (retd), yesterday, said the nation’s boarders were porous because of their interconnectivity with adjoining nations. He added that there was no line demarcating Nigeria from its neighbours. According to him, those living within the nation’s border speak the same language as Nigerians. This situation, said ...

The Ekiti State government is to complete the last phase of the extension of the dualisation of Ado-Ikere Road with N1.13 billion, in addition, it will pay N206 million as compensation to owners of structures that will be affected. The Nation reports that Governor Ayo Fayose, who announced the development in Ikere-Ekiti yesterday at a meeting with tipper owners and ...

Vanguard reports that the management of Federal University of Technology, Owerri, FUTO, has expressed worry that “the activities of land speculators is distorting the masterplan of the institution.” According to Vanguard, the Vice Chancellor, Professor Francis Eze, who raised the alarm yesterday at a pre-convocation press briefing, also disclosed that the recent incursion into the university’s land is along the ...

Delta State Government, yesterday, revealed that it had spent over N32 billion on road construction from 2015 to 2016. Vanguard reports that the State Commissioner for Works, Mr James Augoye, who disclosed this during a ministerial briefing organised by the state’s Ministry of Information in Asaba, said road development and construction were the backbone for the achievement of the SMART agenda ...

The Nation reports that Dangote Group of Companies has finalised plans to establish a large scale rice mill in Kano, Kano State, with a capacity to produce 250,000 tonnes per annum. According to The Nation, the Executive Director Hajiya Halima Dangote, who spoke at the Dangote Day at the 37th Kano Trade Fair, said the mill would process rice harvested from Sokoto, ...

Vanguard reports that the Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has vowed to complete all on-going projects in the state before the elapse of his tenure even as he assured that the ongoing construction work on the popular Arakale Comprehensive Health Centre in Akure, the capital of Ondo State will be completed and commissioned in January 2017 by his administration. ...