Tag Archives: NREH

The Senate Committee on Works yesterday said 11 road contractors collected N4 billion last year from the federal ministry of Works and did not mobilize to sites. The Chairman of the Committee, Senator Kabiru Gaya disclosed this when the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola appeared before the house committee for the defence of his ministries 2016 budget. ...

Lafarge Africa Plc. and Fortis Microfinance Bank (MFB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the provision of low cost mass housing in Nigeria. According to the MoU, which was signed at the head office of the microfinance bank in Abuja, the first phase of the project is expected to produce 500 affordable homes for buyers within six months ...

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has said that Lagos-Ibadan Expressway is among the projects that will be completed in the next two years. He said this while addressing joint session of the House of Representatives Committees on Works, Power and Housing in Abuja, adding that the government would also complete the Murtala Muhammed International Airport ...

Operatives of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, yesterday Feb. 9th, raided the home of former Chief of Defence Staff Alex Badeh. Badeh is being investigated for his alleged involvement in the $2.1 billion arms deal fraud. A source at the anti-graft agency who spoke with The Nation about the new development said: “After interacting with the ex-CDS for 24 ...

According to reports, a military and emergency official said that more than 58 people were killed by a twin suicide bomb attack at an IDP camp in Borno. Two suspected female suicide bombers on Tuesday attacked the Dikwa Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) camp in Borno state, killing 58 people with 67 others injured. The female terrorists had detonated explosives strapped ...

A prosecution witness, Junaid Sai’d, on Tuesday told Justice Okon Abang of the Federal High Court sitting in Abuja how the spokesman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Olisa Metuh, bought N500m property in Lagos. Mr. Sa’id said the money was allegedly transferred to Daniel Ford International Limited in two tranches of N200m and N300m for the purpose of buying a ...

Architect Tonye Braide is the 26th President of the Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA). In this interview with Elsie Godwin of NREH, he pointed out the need for Architects’ project to be vetted by Architects stating that Architects should be the ones in the development control of all development control offices. He also mentioned strengthening the institutional base of the ...

Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, on behalf of the Federal government at the opening ceremony of a 3-day Nigerian Pension Industry Strategy Implementation Road-map Retreat, said that the government has pledged not to revoke any inherited contracts. He added that the usual habit of reversing projects of previous government was wrong and not in the best interest of ...

A Benin High Court has ordered paramount ruler (Otaru) of Auchi, Alhaji Aliru Momoh Ikelebe III, to vacate Bendel Hotel, Auchi, belonging to Orbit Building Society Limited, not later than 31 days. The hotel is located in the plot of land housing the present palace of Auchi. Justice Esohe Ikponmwen who gave the order while delivering judgement in a suit ...

People were feared dead yesterday, in fresh attacks between Fulani herdsmen and farmers at Tom-Anyiin and Tom-Ataan communities, Mbaya, Tombu in Buruku Local Government Area of Benue State. The Council Chairman, Godwin Iorsue, the Divisional Police Officer at Buruku, the Area Commander and some security operatives in the area, on assessment tour of the communities, were ambushed and attacked by the herdsmen who ...