Tag Archives: President Muhammadu Buhari

The Federal Government has released the list of the 69 ongoing projects like roads and bridges in the South-eastern part of Nigeria. In a statement in Abuja on Monday, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, said though the contracts for many of the roads were awarded before the advent of this Administration, they were either poorly funded ...

The Federal Government has fulfilled the pledge to provide infrastructure in the Novone Social Housing Estate, Ikot Ntuen, Uyo Local Government Area as contractors handling access and internal roads, water and electricity projects have been mobilized to site. Breaking the news to journalists, Renowned Social Housing advocate and the Principal Partner of Novone Consult Limited, an Estate Management Firm, Arc. ...

The Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has pledged to fast track the 25-kilometre dual carriageway linking Imo and Rivers states through oil-bearing communities in both states. Mr. Nsima Ekere, the NDDC Managing Director, gave the assurance when he led a team of directors and engineers to inspect the road spanning several oil-producing communities. He explained that the road runs through ...

The Federal Government has invested over N6 billion to develop infrastructure at the Maritime University, Okerenkoko, Delta State. In 2017, President Muhammadu Buhari approved an increase in the take-off grant allocated to the university from the N2 billion earlier announced to N5 billion. This sum was included in the 2018 budget presented to the National Assembly in November 2017. Similarly, ...

The Federal Government has said that its affordable housing schemes will soon transform thousands of Nigerians from being tenants to proud owners of houses and plots of land. This is contained in a statement by Malam Garba Shehu, the Senior Special Assistant on Media and Publicity to President Muhammadu Buhari, in Abuja on Monday. Shehu said the scheme operated through ...

The institute of Mortgage Brokers and Lenders (IMBL) has urged President Muhammadu Buhari to invest recovered looted funds in low-cost housing and mortgage. In a congratulatory message to the President on his one year in office, IMBL’s Director-General Elisha Jasper said lack of housing is the major plight that most Nigerians are facing. He said: “There is a lack of ...

Mr. Shehu Mallam Mikail has said that “ Merging ministries of works/housing with power, which requires enormous work, investments, supervision and regulation to enhance electricity generation would not allow for efficiency in the system. This type of merger would pave the way for conflict and contradiction in administrative procedures.” He said this in a chat with Sunday Vanguard in Lagos, ...

The Building Collapse Prevention Guild (BCPG) has called on the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to support professionals in the built environment in the fight against substandard building construction in the country. In a statement signed by the National President, BCPG, Mr. KunleAwobodu, the guild noted that the construction industry needed the wind of change that was currently blowing across ...