Tag Archives: Road construction

 Niger State governor, Abubakar Sani Bello has directed suspension of work on the Minna-Suleja road project, in order to prevent overloaded heavy trucks from plying the road, which is currently under rehabilitation. According to the governor, allowing the trucks to ply the road while been rehabilitated would prevent users from feeling the positive impact of the rehabilitation exercise, The Guardian ...

The Nation reports that experts in road construction, under the aegis of Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE), have blamed the failure of roads in Niger Delta on the use of wrong construction methods and materials. The experts spoke yesterday at this year’s annual lecture and award ceremony of the NSE in Port Harcourt, the Rivers State capital. The Nation reports ...

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos State governor has directed sole administrators of the 57 councils to submit 288 additional roads (four from each  council) for construction  from 2017. The Sole Administrator of Igando/Ikotun LCDA, Mr. Samuel Ajayi, broke the news yesterday at the inauguration of Osunba Street and Balogun Olanrewaju Road – two of the 114 roads, The Nation reports. Mr. ...

Lagos State Governor, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode has said the Ajasa-Command Road in Agbado Oke-Odo Local Council Development Area (LCDA) area of the State would be completed in the next five weeks, just as he assured that the Abesan Estate link road connecting Aboru from Agbelekale would equally be completed before the end of the year.   Governor Ambode, who gave ...

The Akwa Ibom State Government, on Thursday, secured the state House of Assembly’s approval to serve as guarantor for a N10 billion bank loan for a contractor handling the dualisation of Etinan-Ndon Eyo Road in the state. The loan, from the United Bank for Africa, is with an interest rate of 14.5 per cent per anum and will run for ...

The Governor of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola has on Wednesday paid compensation worth over N302 million to people whose property will be separated due to the ongoing road construction of Olaiya/Ita Olokan in Osogbo. The Governor stated that his administration will not renege on his electioneering promises to make life meaningful and abundant for the people of the state. Aregbesola ...

In continuation of his mass road construc­tion in Enugu State, Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi has flagged-off five additional road constructions in the state amidst jubila­tion from the benefitting people of Enugu North Senatorial zone. The latest of the road construction are Opi-Nsukka dual car­riage way, Obechara road junction, Umuakashi Mechanic Village, Ikenga Hotels Junction and the Post Office roundabout. Others are ...

At the 2015 ministerial press briefing of the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure in Lagos, which was said to be the last for the second term of Governor Babtunde Fashola’s administration, the commissioner for works and infrastructure, Dr. Obafemi Hamzat said the Lagos State Government constructed 281 roads between 2011 and now, while another 201 are currently undergoing construction. According ...