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The Federal Government, on Sunday, announced plans to shut indefinitely the collapsing Ijora-Apapa Bridge to traffic for palliative work to be carried out from today, saying the measure became necessary in order to save lives and property. The Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who made the remark at a stakeholders’ consultative meeting on the defective bridge ...

Life is becoming unbearable for motorist plying the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as a result of the ongoing rehabilitation and reconstruction work on the road. However the Federal Government seems to be sensitive to their plight.  Following attendant gridlock as rehabilitation and reconstruction work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway progresses, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing has appealed to motorists to bear ...

Giving the environmental challenges facing the country, the federal government has called for collective responsibility and actions from all stakeholders in both the public and private sector, including the Civil Society Organisations (CSOs) in combating the problems. The Minister of Environment, Mrs. Amina Mohammed, who made the call at a Stakeholders’ Forum in Abuja, reiterated that environmental protection was top ...

A socio-economic group in Ogun State, the Egba Economic Summit has called on the Federal Government to resume the reconstruction of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway to prevent it from deteriorating further. The road awarded at a cost of N167 billion by the Federal Government has the Lagos-Sagamu stretch of it being redeveloped by Julius Berger, while the Sagamu-Ibadan axis is being ...

Nigeria’s Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, has said that the All Progressives Congress (APC) led government is fully committed to addressing the nation’s housing deficits. The Vice President also reiterated that the Buhari-led administration would deliver other promises made to Nigerians during the electioneering campaigns last year. Vice President Osinbajo made the statement while performing the foundation laying ceremony of 2,000 ...

In an effort to amicably resolve a lingering crisis involving the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the Federal Capital Territory Administration (FCTA), over the former’s property, the Federal Government has waded in, raising a committee saddled with the responsibility of proffering solution to the dispute. In a meeting with the ECOWAS President, Mr. Kadré Désiré Ouadraogo, in ...