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The Federal Government is currently negotiating a loan of about $6bn with the China Export-Import Bank for the construction of the Ibadan-Kano rail line. It has also approved $195m for the security of Nigeria’s waterways by an Israeli firm in order to curb criminal activities in the maritime sector. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, disclosed these at an interactive ...

Commercial drivers and commuters plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway have lamented the gridlock caused by the illegal roadblocks mounted by some men and officers of the Nigerian Army on both sides of the expressway, opposite the Deeper Life Conference Centre. The soldiers who had earlier mounted the roadblocks at the Oremeji end of the expressway recently moved them to the Deeper ...

Niger State Rural Access and Mobility Project says it has spent about N2 billion on the construction of rural roads across the state. Hassan Baba, its Project Coordinator, disclosed this in an interview in Niger, Minna on Monday. He named the benefiting rural communities to include: Mokwa-Ja’agi road 45.24 kilometres, Wuya Suman-Lemu road 36.93 kilometres, Suleja-Abushi-Izom road 31 kilometres, Sabon-Wuse-IjahGwari ...

Lagos – Professionals with the construction industry have called on the federal government to immediately undertake full-blown scientific investigations into the ongoing earth tremor in Mpape, Maitama, Gwarinpa, and Utako areas of Abuja, Federal Capital Territory. This, they said is necessary to among other things boost the confidence of both occupants and investors in the area. Although the FCT Emergency ...

Gas explosion: Security personnel has diverted the road leading to Monaco Gas Filling Station which went up in flames on Monday in Lafia to avoid another disaster. A correspondent who visited the scene on Tuesday observed that personnel from various security agencies were on ground to control traffic on the road. Reports show that the State Fire Service, Police, Nigeria ...

Bad roads – SENATOR Iyiola Omisore, the governorship candidate of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in Osun State, has lamented the bad roads network in the state, just as he promised their repairs and construction of new ones to bring relief to motorists and other road users in the state. He gave this promise during his campaign tour of Ile-Ogbo and ...

Road accident: An unidentified woman was feared dead while seven others sustained injuries when a truck loaded with plantain and sweet potatoes skidded off the Idomi Road in the Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The news we got on Sunday revealed that the road accident, which was said to have happened late Friday, caused traffic jam along ...

Hundreds of residents in Ibadan, Oyo State capital have suffered losses following a torrential rainfall that flooded more than 30 homes on Sunday. It was gathered that many residents have started relocating from Ososami, Oke-Ado and Aresa areas of Ibadan where the water level was reportedly high. Some of the victims have been rendered homeless as they claimed they have ...

No fewer than 3,000 residents have so far benefited from the Lagos State Government’s Rent-To-Own schemes, according to the Commissioner for Housing, Mr Gbolahan Lawal. Lawal said in an interview that the state’s housing policies captured both those in the formal and informal sectors. He said that the informal sector constituted about 65 per cent of the population of the ...

The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) said it would invest N9 billion in the ongoing construction of its Abuja Mass Housing Project of 550 units of houses, located in Zuba, Abuja. Prof. Mohammed Al-Amin, Managing Director of FHA, made this known on Friday while fielding questions from journalists after an inspection of the Zuba pilot scheme construction site, Abuja. The News ...