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A 30-year-old man, Idowu Ogunseye, was on Monday brought before an Ikeja Magistrates’ Court in Lagos for allegedly setting his brother’s house on fire. Ogunseye, a resident of Ajegunle, Lagos, with no stated occupation, is being tried for arson. The prosecutor, Sgt. Godwin Awase told the court that the accused committed the offence on May 15 at Alakuko, Lagos. He ...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has warned state governments against intervention on federal roads without due approval by the Federal Government. Fashola gave the warning while inspecting ongoing federal projects in the Southeast on Saturday in Abakiliki, the Ebonyi State capital. He said the warning became necessary following the huge debts inherited by the Federal Government, even ...

The Minister of Work, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has disclosed that the 15-kilometre Abakpa junction to 9th Mile corner, Ngwo has remained tattered because the previous contractor that handled the section of the road lacked expertise on how to execute the job and finally abandoned it. The minister also stated that federal government has concluded plans to intervene ...

Babatunde Fashola, the minister of power, works and housing, on Saturday, May 20, announced that work is underway at the second Niger Bridge as compensation from Anambra and Delta has risen to N5 billion. The minister further said that all payment for the completion of Zik’s Mausoleum has been made to the contractor, Bouygues Construction to complete the job by ...

History was made in Enugu State at the weekend as Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi inaugurated one of the five new ultra-modern fire service stations being constructed by his administration across the three senatorial districts after 56 years such projects were built in the state. Government records indicate the last time three fire service stations located at Ogui, Enugu North Local Government ...

Maritime experts have called for policies by the governments of countries in West and Central Africa to attract investments that would lead to improvement in maritime infrastructure. The call was made in a statement by Mrs. Oritsematosan Edodo-Emore, Cheif Executive Officer Zoe Venture Ltd., at the end of the third edition of the Lagos International Maritime Week, which held between ...

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has urged the Lagos State Government (LASG) to provide land for the National Housing Programme in the state. Fashola made the call at the 2018 Ramadan Lecture of the Ansar-Ud-Deen Society of Nigeria (ADS), Lagos Branch, in Lagos. He said the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration was working assiduously towards making life ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, says the National Housing Programme initiated by the Federal Government has yielded its first expected result of creating employment for youths. Fashola said this on Friday in Owerri during an inspection of the National Housing Programme site in Imo State. He said that the programme was initiated as part of ...

The Senate yesterday urged the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to immediately intervene in Ebonyi by providing relief materials and rebuild homes, worship places and schools of victims, following the recent destruction of lives and property by windstorm in the state. Accordingly, the upper chamber also called on the Nigerian Meteorological Agency (NIMET) and other relevant government agencies to be ...

Justice Chuka Obiozor sitting at the Federal High Court in Lagos yesterday ordered the temporary forfeiture of four landed properties linked to a former Executive Director, Projects, Niger Delta Development Commission, Mr. Tuoyo Omatsuli. The court made the order for the temporary forfeiture of the properties on Thursday following an ex parte application by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission. ...