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The Delta State Government has approved the construction, rehabilitation and asphalt overlay of four roads in Asaba, the capital territory. This was part of the decisions taken during the State Executive Council meeting held inside the Government House, Asaba. Commissioner for Information, Mr. Patrick Ukah, who spoke after the meeting listed the approvals to include the rehabilitation and asphalt overlay ...

Lagos communities along Agura-Gberigbe road in Ikorodu area of the state, which include Agura, Gberigbe, Igbodu, Ewu-Owa, Mowo-nla, Oke-Agbo, Oko-ito, among others have lamented the bad state of their roads, with residents experiencing restriction of movement when the roads become impassable, especially whenever it rains. Chairman of the community, Pastor Taiwo Kayode, lamented that children can not go to schools ...

In today’s Nigeria, the landscape is littered with abandoned building projects, roads, rails, ports and other infrastructural projects at all levels of governance from local government through the state government to the federal territory. It is quite unfortunate that many of building and infrastructural projects in Nigeria are out-rightly abandoned even at conception. When we talk of abandonment, we mean ...

The Federal Government on Tuesday in Lagos promised massive road repairs nationwide, after completing some ongoing projects in Lagos. The Federal Controller of Works in Lagos, Mr Godwin Eke, gave the assurance in an interview with newsmen in Lagos. He urged residents of Lagos, in particular and Nigerians, in general, to expect more as the government was commited to deploying ...

Mr Babatunde Abdulkareem, the Head of Political Science Department (HOD), Kwara State College of Education, Oro, has advised all tiers of government to prioritise road projects in order to reduce avoidable road crashes. Abdulkareem gave this advice on Monday in Ilorin in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). He said that Nigeria roads needed urgent attention, adding ...

Gov. Rotimi Akeredolu budgets N15b for rehabilitation and construction of roads across the 18 local government areas of the state this year. The Ondo state Governor plans to spend N3 billion out of the amount budgeted on the reconstruction of roads in the rural areas in other to ease transportation of farm produce to urban areas. These formed part of ...

According to The Guardian, the Katsina State government has said that it will spend N23 billion on roads construction and electricity projects in some selected local councils in the state. The state’s Commissioner for Works, Housing and Transport, Mr. Tasi’u Musa Dandagoro, stated this at the end of a rescheduled executive council meeting of the state. Dandagoro said the projects ...

Pulse reports that the Niger government says it has spent N1 billion on the construction and expansion of roads and drainage in Bida Local Government. Its Commissioner for Works and Transport, Alhaji Abdulmalik Cheche, disclosed this on Wednesday in Minna, when Hajiya Mariam Kolo, Director-General, Child Protection Agency, paid him an advocacy visit. Cheche said that the construction of the ...

“Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, in this interview with select journalists in Maiduguri after a three-day tour of ongoing projects in the North-East zone, explains his vision of reconnecting Nigeria by roads, power and housing.  Honourable Minister, how would you react to the common notion that all Nigerian roads are bad? Well, I think that ...

New Telegraph reports that Governor of Abia State, Dr. Okezie Ikpeazu, has appealed to the federal government to urgently address the deplorable state of the federal roads in the South-East and South-South geopolitical zones. He made the appeal at the Government House, Umuahia, when he received in audience the Senate Committee on Works, led by its chairman, Senator Kabiru Gaya. ...