Bauchi State government has signed a Memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Friends Home Fund to build 2500 Housing Units worth 15 Billion Naira in the state. The housing units are to be constructed by Federal Ministry of Finance. This was disclosed by the State Governor Bala Mohammed shortly after signing a Memorandum of Understanding with the Friends Home Fund, ...
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ICPC urged to prevail on contractors to complete constituency Projects
The Mai Yaki of Lokoja and a retired Permanent Secretary in Kogi state , Alhaji Aliu Lawal Jiya has appealed to the ICPC to prevail on the contractors that handled the construction of Lokoja fish modern market to come back and complete the installation of the major component of the project to enable people benefit from the laudable constituency project. ...
Read More »FRC commends Lagos-Ibadan rail project
The Fiscal Responsibility Commission (FRC) says the ongoing Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail project has met the agency’s mandate of ensuring value for money and expected to be completed according to standards. Ibrahim Dauda, Director of the Audit Department, FRC, made the assertion during an inspection conducted by the agency’s team on the project in Lagos. Reports show that the FRC’s ...
Read More »Jigawa expends N10bn on road construction in 4 LGs — Commissioner
The Jigawa Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Aminu Usman, said on Tuesday that the state government had spent over N10 billion naira on road construction in Gumel Emirate. Gumel Emirate is made up of the four councils of Sule Tankarkar, Gumel, Maigatari and Gagarawa Local Government Areas in Jigawa. Usman, who disclosed this to newsmen in Gumel, said the ...
Read More »FG commissions N461 million erosion control project in Taraba
The Federal Government has handed over N461 million culvert and drainage construction for erosion and flood control works to communities in Kofar Fada, Shettima and Kasuwan Yelwa areas of Taraba State. The project was executed by the Ecological Fund Office (EFO), which is domiciled in the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF). Speaking during the ...
Read More »NIA discloses on-going affordable housing project
The Nigerian Institute of Architects (NIA) has disclosed that it is working on a Nigerian Affordable Housing project for the common man. Speaking in an interview with LEADERSHIP recently, the president of NIA, Arch Adibe Njoku, who said the project will be piloted by universities, disclosed that the building project will be launched next year. According to him, the project ...
Read More »FCT residents lament over Kuje-Gwagwalada road construction delay
Residents of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Sunday has decried the delay in the completion of the Kuje-Gwagwalada road project awarded since 2010. Some residents of the territory in separate interviews with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Kuje and Gwagwalada said that the delay in the completion of the project was not in their interest. NAN recalls ...
Read More »FCTA proposes N4.003 billion for UN building
Total sum of N4.003 billion has been proposed for the rehabilitation and provision of additional security measures for the United Nations (UN) building located in Nigeria’s capital city, Abuja, in 2018. The proposed amount for the UN building was part of total sum of N40.297 billion proposed in the 2018 budget proposal presented to the House Committee on FCT, chaired ...
Read More »Ibadan-railway line – Ameachi discloses reason for delay
Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, has explained why the Lagos-Ibadan-railway project has not been completed. He revealed that the relocation of the oil and gas, water and sewage pipes on the road was responsible for the delay. Amaechi disclosed this in Ibadan, at the monthly meeting of the Lagos-Ibadan-Railway line Project Steering Committee. He said the Federal Government was carefully ...
Read More »FG threatens to revoke contract for reconstructing Port Harcourt Airport
The Federal Government has threatened to revoke the remodelling contract of the domestic wing of the Port Harcourt Airport due to slow pace of work by the contractor. The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, made this known to journalists during an inspection of ongoing construction at the Port Harcourt International Airport yesterday. He said that work on the ...
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