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The federal government will leverage on the massive infrastructure of the Nigerian Postal Service (NIPOST) spread across the country to diversify revenue streams of the Service to generating revenue into government coffers. The Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu made this known at a one-day stakeholders’ conference organised by NIPOST held in Lagos on Friday. The Minister said the NIPOST will ...

The Federal Government will no longer meet its December 2018 date for the completion of the Lagos-Ibadan expressway project. This was disclosed by the Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Adedamola Kuti. The Federal Government had earlier promised to deliver the project by the end of 2018. The Minister of Information, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, was one of the government officials ...

The Third Mainland Bridge, longest bridges in Nigeria and one of the top three in Africa that connects Lagos Island to the mainland areas will be temporarily closed from 12 midnight today till Sunday, August 26th, 2018. This is to enable test assessments on the level of the bridge, which is one of the most strategic and economic linking Lagos ...

Abuja – Acting President Yemi Osinbajo and his cabinet members rose from the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday, to approve N348.594 billion contract for the construction of 420.6 kilometers Akwanga-Jos-Bauchi-Gombe road. According to Babatunde Fashola, Minister for Power, Works and Housing, the project scope is for the expansion of the current two-lane highway into a dual carriageway. He ...

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved N72.9 billion for the reconstruction of the road from Apapa to the toll gate on Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Lagos state. Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, made this known to State house Correspondents in Abuja after the weekly cabinet meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari. Fashola said the decision was ...

The Federal Government and the Ogun government on Tuesday signed a Memorandum of Understanding for the continuation and completion of the abandoned Ota Regional Water Supply Project. The ceremony, which took place at Arobieye- Iju in Ado-Odo/Ota council area of the state, also saw the signing of an agreement for Partnership for Expanded Water Supply, Sanitation and Hygiene. The Minister ...

Table Shakers Association of Nigeria (TSAN) has urged Kogi State government to fix certain collapsing portions of roads in Lokoja metropolis. A drive through Lokoja by TSAN crew revealed a disturbing situation with some segments of roads about to collapse. It viewed this as an indictment of the Works Ministry in the State for remarkable display of ineptitude and advised ...

The Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), through the Satellite Towns Development Department (STDD) has flagged off the rehabilitation of Abaji-Rubochi 10.2 kilometers road, at the cost of N490 million. Speaking during the flag-off ceremony yesterday, Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Muhammad Musa Bello, revealed that the administration has paid 15 per cent mobilization fee to an indigenous ...

The Federal Government has said it will ensure steady funding of three major projects namely; Lagos-Ibadan highway, Second Niger Bridge and Kano-Abuja road until they are fully completed. Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, gave the assurance at the flag-off of Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano road project in Kano State. He said the uninterrupted funding of the projects would be sourced ...

Experts in the built environment have asked the federal government to give room for private sector to actualise its infrastructural development plan. They said Nigeria needs N115 Trillion to grow at six to seven per cent yearly exceeding its population growth of over 2.7 per cent. According to Mr. Emmanuel Obe, a real estate developer, government must provide the enabling ...