Acting Chairman, Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC), .Mr. Victor Muruako has tasked China Civil Engineering and Construction Company (CCECC) to deliver timely and quality job, to justify the cost of the contract. Muruako said this in Port Harcourt on Thursday during the inspection of the Aba/Port Harcourt section of the Port Harcourt – Enugu Road. The Acting chairman of the commission ...

African Water Association (AfWA) on Wednesday in Abuja stressed the need for safe drinking water in order to mitigate avoidable diseases. AfWA focal person in Nigeria, Mr. Francis Umemezia, stated this at a workshop on the development of laboratory water and quality assurance manuals. He noted that the implications of drinking unsafe and contaminated water could be disastrous, adding that ...

The Federal Ministry of Mines and Steel Development has advised unregistered miners to get mineral titles from the ministry to legalise their mining activities and access grants to boost their mining activities. Mr. Sallim Abdulsalaam, Director, Mines Environmental Compliance, in the ministry, stated this in an interview with newsmen in Lafia on Wednesday, during a sensitisation programme held for mineral ...

Edo State NDDC coordinator Hon Uwuilekhue Saturday has listed some projects embarked on by the NDDC under his leadership as State Rep/Commissioner in Edo for 2 years. Uwuilekhue who spoke on Tuesday in Edo State at the NDDC Stakeholders Forum themed “Peace As A Panacea For Sustainable Development In The Niger Delta Region” said there cannot be peace if the ...

The Niger-Delta Power Holding Company (NDPHC), says 60 per cent of electricity distribution networks in the country was conceived and constructed by the company to help improve electricity supply. NDPHC’s Executive Director, Engineering and Technical Services, Mr. Ifeoluwa Oyedele said this in an interview in Lafia. Oyedele, who spoke after inspection of ongoing construction of a 330/132/33kV transmission substation in ...

Operators in the Nigerian real estate development industry, say that there is a need to look at the sources of financing construction of housing to make life meaningful for Nigerians and also make housing affordable for all. Director of Locke Homes Properties Ltd, Idowu Bakare, stated this on Tuesday while presenting the key to a 3-bedroom flat at the Gold ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has withheld assent to another bill, the Nigerian Correctional Service Bill, bringing to 38 the number of bills declined assent by President Buhari since June 2015. This is coming just as the Senate Tuesday passed three bills namely Chemical Weapons (Prohibition) Bill 2019; Electric Power Sector Reform No. 6, 2005 (Amendment) Bill 2019 and National Board for ...

Members of the Board of Directors of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) have added their voice to the perennial traffic gridlock on the roads leading to the port in Apapa and Tin-Can Island. While assuring that the Board would continue to identify with all efforts to find a lasting solution to the problem, the members stated that they were aware ...

Mr. Nana Takai, a former labour leader, has called for a review of the National Pension Act and National Housing Fund (NHF) to ensure workers friendly policies. Takai, the immediate past National Chairman of the National Association of Nigerian Nurses and Midwives (NANNM), made the appeal at the ongoing labour workshop organised by the Federal Health Sector Institutions of NANNM ...

The Federal High Court in Lagos on Monday turned down a motion on notice seeking to stop Access Bank from taking over a property known as Etiebet’s Place in Ikeja, Lagos. The property located on Mobolaji Bank Anthony Way is owned by a former Minister of Petroleum Resources, Chief Don Etiebet, in the name of his firm, Obodex Nigeria Limited. ...