THE Minister for Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has on Tuesday, reiterated President Muhammadu Buhari’s commitment to addressing infrastructure deficits in the country. He gave the assurance at the inauguration of Oyo State School of Surveying, Governing Council, in Abuja. The Minister stated that the President is sincere about fulfilling his New Year promises to providing good road networks, ...
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NGO- Federal government should divert idle funds into housing sector
Shelter Rights Initiatives, a Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO), has appealed to the Federal Government to replicate its laudable agricultural sector programmes in the housing sector to solve housing deficit. The President of the NGO, Mr Festus Adebayo made the call in Abuja on Saturday. The official said that the Federal Government’s Anchor Borrowers’ Programme (ABP) for an agricultural loan should be ...
Read More »President Buhari is not enthusiastic about infrastructural issues
If it is true that what you say, and how you say them expose and unveil the condition and attitudes of your heart, it is safe to say that the Nigerian President, Muhammadu Buhari is not enthusiastic about infrastructural issues and definitely not interested in technology in Nigeria, at least not in 2018. His New Year Day Speech comprised exactly ...
Read More »Benue Killings: IGP gets a 14-day ultimatum to arrest culprits
The Senate has given the Inspector-General of Police (IGP) Mr Ibrahim Idris 14 days ultimatum to arrest and investigate the perpetrators of Benue killings. This position was sequel to the consideration of a report of the Senate Ad Hoc Committee on the Review of the Current Security Infrastructure in Nigeria. The committee had on Friday last week, visited the state ...
Read More »Wike- Cultism and kidnapping will attract death sentence
The Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Ezenwo Wike has declared that the State Government will amend the State Anti-kidnapping Law to prescribe death sentence for criminals involved in cultism, robbery and kidnapping. In a state broadcast on Monday on the killing of Johnson Igwedibia alias Don Wanny, Governor Wike stated that the Rivers State Government has zero tolerance for crime and ...
Read More »Youth unemployment will be tackled with specialised skills acquisition centers-Ngige
The Minister of Labour and Employment, Sen. Chris Ngige has said that President Muhammadu Buhari is poised to achieve significant reduction in unemployment rates in the country, through the construction of new skills acquisition centres as well as completion and rehabilitation of abandoned centres. Ngige made the disclosure to newsmen during the groundbreaking ceremony of the Federal Specialist Skills Acquisition ...
Read More »“Release documents to my husband’s property” – Oyerinde’s widow cries out
Mrs. Funke Olaitan, wife of the slain Principal Private Secretary to Governor Adams Oshiomole of Edo state, Olaitan Oyerinde, has urged civil activists in the state to prevail on the Executive Director of African Network for Environment and Economic Justice, ANEEJ, Rev. David Ugolor, to release documents relating to her husband’s property. She also called on Nigeria’s president-elect, General Muhammadu ...
Read More »Agbakoba draws Buhari’s attention to housing
The former National president of the Nigeria Bar Association, Mr. Olisa Agbakoba has pointed out housing as one of the many sectors with issues requiring urgent governmental attention. He therefore advised the president-elect, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), to borrow the strategies of the 32nd president of the United States, President Franklin Roosevelt, who is renowned for his programme for relief, ...
Read More »CPAN calls for slash in cement price
CPAN – Cement producers association of Nigeria, called on the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, to slash the price of cement from the current N2, 200 to N1, 000 per bag. CPAN made the request in a congratulatory message sent to Buhari and Prof. Yemi Osinbajo for emerging victorious at this year’s presidential election. They noted that the move would serve as ...
Read More »REDAN express readiness to work with the president elect, GMB
During the maiden meeting of its newly elected national exco in Abuja on Friday, The Real Estate Developers Association of Nigeria (REDAN) expressed its readiness to work with the president- elect, General Muhammadu Buhari in addressing the problems facing the housing sector. In the meeting attended by REDAN exco, REDAN President Rev. Chime Ugochukwu said that the association will help ...
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