Tag Archives: Muhammadu Buhari

Road construction – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday approved N5.1 billion for the rehabilitation of Ila Orangun – Oke Ila – Ilale Aka road linking Osun to Ekiti State. The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, disclosed this when he briefed State House correspondents on the outcome of the council’s meeting ...

In a bid to tackle lack of funding for infrastructure projects, the federal government has set aside N199 billion Presidential Infrastructure Funds to tackle critical projects of the President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration. This was revealed by the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed while inspecting and showcasing the dualisation of the Ibadan to Ilorin road awarded since 2010 ...

The Minister for Works, Power and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, last weekend inspected Federal Government’s on-going projects in the South-East geopolitical zone, starting from Abia, Imo, Enugu, Ebonyi to Anambra states. Arriving at the Enugu border with Abia State, after his departure from Imo State, the Minister rode through one flank of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, stopping at the CGC ...

Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Power, Works and Housing, has warned state governments against intervention on federal roads without due approval by the Federal Government. Fashola gave the warning while inspecting ongoing federal projects in the Southeast on Saturday in Abakiliki, the Ebonyi State capital. He said the warning became necessary following the huge debts inherited by the Federal Government, even ...

The Minister of State for Power, Works and Housing, Suleiman Hassan, has said that the Federal Government will deliver no fewer than 2,450 housing units in the first phase of the National Housing Programme of the President Muhammadu Buhari administration. He said the programme involved the building of an average of 70 housing units in 35 states of the federation ...

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 ...

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 leadership of National Assembly is expected to transmit the bill for the establishment of Federal Road Authority and the legislative framework for private sector participation in the development of road sector, to the Presidency for assent. The House of Representatives says its decision to adopt the Senate version of the Federal Road Authority was geared towards fast-tracking the proposed ...

According to Independent, Ibrahim Idris, the Inspector-General of Police, on Thursday in Lagos, emphasised the need to improve the welfare of the estimated 370,000 police officers serving in the country. Idris made the call while commissioning the Muhammadu Buhari Housing Estate, with 1,083 units of three-bedroom flats and semi-detached houses built in over 64 hectares of land at Agemowo, Badagry ...

“Some leading stakeholders in the built environment have decried the seeming neglect of the housing sector by the Federal Government.”-Independent Those who spoke with INDEPENDENT hinged their submission on the non-challant disposition of the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola on the developmental growth of the housing sector even as they frowned at the Federal Government’s ...