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The Federal Government has committed over N3 trillion into infrastructure development in the country. The Minister of State II for Power, Works and Housing, Suleiman Zarma made this known on Wednesday when he paid a courtesy visit on the Gov. Yahaya Bello of Kogi. Reports show that the minister, in the company of some ministry’s officials was in the state ...

Workers have threatened not to allow the privatisation of the Nigeria railway system unless existing labour issues are settled. The President of the Senior Staff Association of Statutory Corporations and Government Owned Companies (SSASCGOC), Mohammed Yunusa has disclosed. Yunusa, who stated this in Abuja yesterday, said the workers would protest against the plan. He absolved the workers of any blame ...

The federal government has decided that it will no longer refund money spent by state governments on the construction of federal roads. The decision was said to have been taken late last year. The Niger State Commissioner for Works and Housing, Alhaji Ibrahim Balarabe, disclosed this while briefing journalists at the end of the state executive council meeting held at ...

While commending the efforts of the Federal and state governments in diversifying and expanding the production base of the economy, the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has declared that there is a tendency for the country to fail to address some of the root causes of the economic malaise that got her into recession in the first place. The above ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) has restated its resolve to complete all on-going projects across the Niger Delta region within the limits of funds available to it. The NDDC Executive Director Projects Engr. (Dr) Samuel Adjogbe, re-echoed the commitment when he led a team of directors and engineers to inspect the emergency repair of Umuelemai-Agbaja Road in Isiala Mbaino ...

The Federal High Court, Abuja, on Thursday, fixed April 30 to rule on an application, seeking the forfeiture of two properties belonging to Patience Jonathan, wife of former President Goodluck Jonathan to the Federal Government. The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), on Oct. 20, 2017, filed an ex parte application praying the court for an order of interim forfeiture ...

The Managing Director of Federal Mortgage Bank (FMBN), Arc. Ahmed Musa Dangiwa, has unveiled plans to collaborate with states governments for them to provide affordable houses in the estate. He expressed concern during a meeting with 9-member delegation, led by the President of the National Economic Summit Group (NESG), Engr. Kashim Ali, at the FMBN headquarters, yesterday in Abuja. Dangiwa ...

The contractors handling federal road projects in the North-East and North-West zones of the country have commended the Federal Government over its efforts to fund some road projects with the Sukuk Fund Initiative. Sukuk are Islamic bonds, structured to generate returns to invest without infringing Islamic law that prohibits interest on loans. Some of the contractors told newsmen in Kano ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has called on Nigerians to be patient with contractors handling federal road projects over inconveniences caused by the on-going projects. Fashola made the appeal in Kano on Sunday while he was inspecting Federal Government road projects in Kano State. The projects inspected by the minister were the expansion of Kano-Katsina ...

Federal Government, in connection with the Kwara state government, is set to complete a 76- unit housing project in Il orin metropolis, Ilorin West local government area of the state as part of efforts to bridge housing deficit in the country. Conducting journalists round the housing project on Wednesday, the federal controller, ministry of Housing, Architect Kunle Shonibare and Director ...