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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola (SAN), has written to the Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project, promising “to refer the request for details of alleged contractors and companies that collected money for electricity projects and failed to execute any of the projects to the Ministry’s agencies for necessary action and appropriate response.” Fashola’s latest response followed his ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Bababtunde Fashola, has advised construction experts to adopt international laws that suit Nigeria’s needs to reduce conflicts in project execution for economic growth. Fashola gave the advice at a regional workshop organised by the Lagos Chamber of Commerce International Arbitration Centre. The programme was put together in collaboration with the Association of ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has announced the approval of 108 firms for the supply of meters to electricity consumers in the country. Fashola made the announcement during the continuation of his neighbourhood consultations/campaign for the re-election of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019 in the Surulere Local Government of Lagos on Sunday, the News Agency ...

A commercial motorcycle operator, Mohammed Ajah, was on Friday brought before an Ikeja Chief Magistrates’ Court, Lagos, for allegedly using his motorcycle to block his landlady from entering her house. Ajah, 24, resident at No. 1 Oshinaga St., Oke-Ira, Ogba, Lagos, is facing two counts bordering on assault. The prosecutor alleged that the defendant assaulted one Mrs. Franca Enweke by ...

Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Works, Housing and Power, has urged the Federal High Court sitting in Lagos to dismiss the fundamental right suit filed by leading human rights lawyer, Femi Falana (SAN) challenging the failure of Nigeria’s Federal Government to remove the gridlock on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway. A counter-affidavit deposed to by one Ayodele Otedola, a litigation clerk at ...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, has called on members of the Nigerian Institution of Estate Surveyors and Valuers to create data on unoccupied houses in the country. Fashola made the call in Abuja on Wednesday during a courtesy visit by a delegation from the Estate Surveyors and Valuers Registration Board of Nigeria, led by its Chairman, Nweke ...

The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Raji Fashola, has disclosed that over 50,000 Nigerians are now engaged in 77 works and 50 housing construction sites across the country, while only 277 foreigners are working in the sites. According to Fashola, the figures are contained in the “Inception Report” the Ministry of Works, Power and Housing recently commissioned to ...

The Federal Government has stepped up efforts to ensure proper maintenance of public buildings across the country. This followed a two-day stakeholder meeting on the Draft National Public Buildings Maintenance Policy organised by the Federal Ministry of Power, Works and Housing (Works and Housing Sector) which began yesterday in Abuja. In his remarks, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, ...

The House of Representatives has invited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, over the failure by a contractor to reconstruct the Mararaba-Mubi-Michika-Madagali-Gwoza Road, including the three bridges at Kudzum, Delchimi, and Wurogyande destroyed by Boko Haram. The invitation followed the adoption of a motion moved by Mr. Adamu Kamale representing Michika/Madagali Federal Constituency in Borno State. ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Bababtunde Raji Fashola, said President Muhammadu Buhari’s government is laying a solid foundation for the economic growth and prosperity of Nigeria. Fashola stated this at the flag-off ceremony for the reconstruction of the 34-kilometer Apapa-Oshodi-Oworonshoki-Ojota Expressway, a road built between 1975 and 1978, which he tagged as main artery of all our import ...