Tag Archives: Road

The Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola has inspected the first phase of the rehabilitation of the Lagos/Ibadan Expressway. The Nation reports that he said completion of the first phase had positively impacted on traffic, adding that this will facilitate movement of persons and goods this yuletide. Fashola praised Julius Berger for delivering the project before the December 31 ...

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), on Tuesday, advised road users to cease from embarking on night journey during the Yuletide. In an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Enugu, FRSC Deputy Sector Commander in Enugu, Mr Lucky Ugele, gave the advice in an interview with the . “Every road user is advised to do away with ...

Abia State Governor, Okezie Ikpeazu has officially flagged off the construction of 170 km of rural roads across the 17 Local Government Areas of the state, under the rural road programme of the government. According to New Telegraph, Ikpeazu hinted this at the flag off ceremony and commissioning of the 4.7km Owerrinta- Egbelu Mbutu road in Isiala Ngwa South council ...

The Ekiti State government is to complete the last phase of the extension of the dualisation of Ado-Ikere Road with N1.13 billion, in addition, it will pay N206 million as compensation to owners of structures that will be affected. The Nation reports that Governor Ayo Fayose, who announced the development in Ikere-Ekiti yesterday at a meeting with tipper owners and ...

Delta State Government, yesterday, revealed that it had spent over N32 billion on road construction from 2015 to 2016. Vanguard reports that the State Commissioner for Works, Mr James Augoye, who disclosed this during a ministerial briefing organised by the state’s Ministry of Information in Asaba, said road development and construction were the backbone for the achievement of the SMART agenda ...

Vanguard reports that the Delta State House of Assembly has urged the state governor, Dr Ifeanyi Okowa, to direct the Director-General of the state Traffic Management Agency, DESTMA, to urgently liaise with the Federal Road Safety Corps, FRSC, and all other relevant agencies to clear all broken down vehicles and trucks from the highways in the state, to check the ...

Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has made it known that there is no going back on his administration’s plan to reconstruct the Abeokuta- Sagamu expressway into a 10-lane road project. New Telegraph reports that Amosun, who spoke at a two-day Treasury Board Meeting held at the Oba’s Complex, Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta, said work would soon commence on the project. He ...

Vanguard reports that Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, yesterday said his government would invite the Economic Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to probe contractors who handled rural roads in the State and did not complete them. According to Vanguard, Okorocha stated this at the Imo International Convention Centre, IICC, in Owerri, during a meeting with the members of the State Development ...

According to Vanguard, the Southern Nigeria Peoples Mandate, SNPM, a human rights organization has drawn the attention of the Federal Government towards total infrastructural decay of federal roads in the South-east and South-south regions of the country. SNPM mentioned some of the roads as  Nnewi/Amichi/Unubi/Uga/Akokwa/Arondizuogu/Umulolo/Okigwe federal highway; Enugu/Awka/Onitsha expressway; Enugu/Okigwe/Umuahia/Aba/Port Harcourt expressway; Aba/Ikot Ekpene highway; Umuahia/Ikot Ekpene highway; Ugep/Adim/Uyanga/Calabar federal ...

 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 ...