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The Edo State Government has flagged off the construction of 3.2km road projects across Ikpoba-Okha and Oredo local government areas. The projects include a 1.5km road in Oghoghobi Community in Ikpoba-Okha LGA and 1.7km road project in Ogunwehi Community in Oredo LGA. At the flag-off of the projects, Edo State Coordinator, State Employment and Expenditure for Result (SEEFOR), Mr. Toju ...

Osun state Governor Gboyega Oyetola, yesterday sought the intervention of the Federal Government on the completion and repairs of some major federal roads in the state. The governor, who spoke when he visited the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, listed them as Osogbo- Ilobun, Iwo-Osogbo, and Osogbo- Ilesa Roads. Oyetola said some of the roads are in ...

The Minister of State for Works, Power and Housing, Mustapha Shehuri, has said the Federal Government does not have the financial capability to fund all road projects. Shehuri stated this while inspecting the Auchi-Okenne section of the Benin-Abuja Highway, where the contractor handling the road projects attributed the slow work on the road to insufficient fund. The Project Manager of ...

Some Epe residents on Wednesday appealed to the Lagos State Government to complete all road projects it embarked on in the community. The Epe residents, in a separate interview, said that the road projects had been abandoned. Titilayo Adebanjo, a resident, lamented the poor conditions of Epe-Ikorodu Expressway, saying that government’s attention should urgently be shifted to the bad road. Adebanjo ...

The Federal Government has made refund to Lagos State government running into billions of naira, being what the state incurred on the rehabilitation of federal roads within the state. The state governor, Akinwunmi Ambode, admitted to this at the weekend but did not mention the actual amount refunded. However, it was gathered that over N52 billion was allegedly being owed ...

The Edo State Government is indebted to contractors handling road projects across the state to the tune of N28,197,752,833,50, the Commissioner for Infrastructure, Osahon Abraham Amiolemen, has said. Amiolemen disclosed this yesterday in Benin during the ongoing ministerial briefing. He said the state government awarded N52,814,329,790,39 road contracts and that a total of N31,340,800,056,56 had been paid to contractors. According ...

Action Democratic Party (ADP) candidate in Saturday’s Osun governorship poll, Alhaji Moshood Adeoti, has promised to complete all road projects initiated by the present administration in the state. Addressing supporters at a rally at the Nelson Mandela Freedom Park, Osogbo, Adeoti said he would also dialogue with the federal government regarding the slow pace of work on Osogbo/Ilobu/Ogbomoso road, Osogbo/Ila ...

Work on many Federal Government highway projects funded by Sukuk is presently going at a very slow pace. A check by correspondents in Yobe, Kogi, Niger and Kano states showed that most of the contractors handling the roads rehabilitation are either not on site or there is slow pace of activities where they are. In Kogi, reports show that work ...

The Kogi State government on Wednesday said about 40 percent of all the ongoing road projects embarked upon across the three senatorial districts of the state would be completed and ready for commissioning by January 2019. Chief of Staff to the Kogi State Governor, Chief Edward Onoja gave hint in Lokoja while speaking to newsmen on the sidelines of the ...

Residents and indigenes of Ogbomoso town in Oyo state on Wednesday occupied the Ogbomoso-Oyo road with a demand for the quick completion of abandoned Ogbomoso-Oyo expressway. It was reported that the residents in June this year, issued an August 1st ultimatum to the Federal Government for the completion of the abandoned expressway which they alleged had killed more people than ...