The Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, on Saturday restated that the Federal Government had achieved a lot in all sectors of human development and democratic process. The vice president said that Politicians had nothing to show for the lesson of the failure of the past administrations in the country as it happened. “There is a lot of impunity that has ...
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Ogun expends N18.6 billion on road construction T
The Ogun Government said it had spent N18.6 billion on the construction and provision of roads across the state between January and August. Arch. Olamilekan Adegbite, Ogun State Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, said this while playing host to the House Committee on Works and Infrastructure, on oversight visit to the ministry in Abeokuta. The commissioner attributed the slow pace ...
Read More »Akwa Ibom Govt. discloses reason why Uyo-Ikot Ekpene road was delayed
More facts have emerged as to the cause of the delay for the completion of the controversial 25 kilometer Uyo-Ikot Ekpene road the immediate past state administration awarded in 2011 at the cost of over N71 billion. While the immediate past administration publicised that the road was done up to 18 kilometers remaining only three kilometres for its completion, the ...
Read More »1602 lives lost in auto crashes in 3 months – FRSC
The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) yesterday said 1,602 died in 2,805 road crashes recorded in the last quarter of 2017. Speaking yesterday in Jos, the Plateau State capital, at a safe motoring campaign flag-off, FRSC Corps Mashal Boboye Oyeyemi said the corps would be strict on its conduct of vision acuity tests to ensure all drivers on the roads ...
Read More »Landlord burgles tenant’s shop over refusal to quit
A landlord, Adetoye Adebayo, has been arrested by the police for allegedly breaking into his tenant’s shop over the latter’s refusal to quit. The tenant, Aanuoluwapo Alonge, alleged that the septuagenarian damaged some of her property and made away with items from the shop in the Ipaja area of Lagos State. It was gathered that in 2014, Adebayo rented out ...
Read More »Earth tremor hits Abuja again
The Nigerian Geological Survey Agency on Thursday said a earth tremor of 3.0 Mercalli Intensity Scale occurred around the Maitama axis in Abuja at about 12.26pm. This is the second time earth tremor is being reported within the precincts of the Maitama in about two months. On September 6, residents of Mpape off Maitama district of Abuja were in panic ...
Read More »FRSC records 93 deaths weekly on Nigerian roads
Yakubu Dogara, Speaker of the House of Representatives, on Tuesday commended Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), over the introduction of digital technology, especially in driver’s license processing, with a drastic time cut for applicants. The Speaker, however, expressed regrets that there is still high rate of loss of lives to road crashes across Nigeria, even as he promised that the ...
Read More »Buhari is an ingrate for attacking Jonathan’s effort on Infrastructure – Reno Omokri
Reno Omokri, a former presidential media aide, says President Muhammadu Buhari is an ingrate for saying former President Goodluck Jonathan did nothing for infrastructure. It was reported earlier that President Buhari blamed previous governments for the infrastructural challenges Nigeria is facing. The President said this when he received the outgoing British High Commissioner to the country, Paul Arkwright, at the ...
Read More »Amaechi tells Lagos-Ibadan rail contractors to speed up work
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says he is displeased with the slow pace of work at the Lagos end of the Lagos-Ibadan rail project. He called on the contractors to speed up work after visiting the project site on Tuesday, October 30, 2018. The minister said, “There is a slow pace of work in the Lagos axis of the project. ...
Read More »CILT bemoans underutilisation of railways, inland water system
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) Nigeria, has expressed concern over prevailing challenges and recurrent low contribution of the railways and inland waterways to the movement of cargoes across the country. Besides, the institute bemoaned the lingering infrastructure deficiency that has rendered the trucking of cargoes inefficient, even as the nation relies on trucks for physical distribution of ...
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