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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 ...

The Guardian reports that the Oluwo of Iwoland, Oba Abdulrasheed Akanbi, Telu 1 and eminent members of Iwo community in Osun State, have repaired the damaged Lagos-Iwo-Oshogbo road that has been abandoned for many years. According to The Guardian, the reason the traditional ruler and his subjects took up the challenge was that “the road is the shortest route from ...

Vanguard reports that commuters along the ever busy Owerri-Umuahia and Owerri-Okigwe federal highways yesterday, lauded the management of Niger Delta Development Commission, NDDC, for commencing reconstruction work on the dilapidated portions of the two roads. According to Vanguard, the bad portions of the two roads include Awaka and Ezeogba, Emekuku in Owerri North local government area and Ekemele, Akabo, Ikeduru ...

Reports show that the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) has blamed the rising number of dilapidated roads on absence of legislation to enforce reforms in the sector. The Guardian reports that NSE President, Otis Anyaeji, who disclosed this in Abuja while hosting legislators who are also engineers in Abuja, explained that the society has six legislations that can bridge the ...

The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, made it known that the Federal Government might re-design some portions of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway that are susceptible to flooding. According to The Guardian, while the Minister was speaking in Abuja yesterday at the opening of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) national conference, he said the low level of some portions of the expressway ...

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. ...

Governor Akinwunmi Ambode , the governor of Lagos State  made it known yesterday that through the construction of 114 roads which his administration, in collaboration with local councils across the state, embarked upon early this year, over 55,000 direct and indirect jobs were created. Ambode who was represented by the Commissioner for Agriculture, Mr. Toyin Suarau at the official commissioning ...

The Federal Government has promised to make about 2,000 kilometres of road network motorable. in 2016. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this while answering questions at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) Forum in Abuja on Wednesday, May 18. Fashola said that the Muhammadu Buhari-led administration is focusing on completing all strategic roads that demand urgent attention ...

Though opportunities may surface if tolls are introduced on our highways, it doesn’t mean it won’t come with the challenges which formed the core of the reason for the demolition of same in 2004. In view of this, it is crucial the present government make the masses understand the yardstick behind the planned re-establishment of toll gates on our federal ...