CONCRETE ROAD: CEMENT MANUFACTURERS TASK FGN ON POLICY FRAMEWORK

In the drive towards attracting investments in the construction sector, aid local content and improve capacity utilization in the cement-manufacturing sector, the major cement producers have tasked the Federal Government on the need to formulate policies to encourage concrete pavements design. According to the manufacturers, concrete remains the most cost-effective road material on the basis of both initial and life-cycle […]

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AJAH FLYOVER BRIDGE CONSTRUCTION: TRAFFIC DIVERSION STARTS TODAY

The Lagos State Government on Friday announced the commencement of the construction of Ajah Reinforced Concrete Flyover, just as it said that vehicular movement in and Around Ajah roundabout would henceforth be disallowed from Tuesday, June 7, 2016. The State’s Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, Engr. Ganiyu Johnson, in a statement he signed said the Bridge which would be constructed […]

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HOW N16BILLION MASS TRANSIT SURE-P FUND WAS SQUANDERED

Over N16billion of Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P) funds released by the Goodluck Jonathan administration in 2012 for the Public Mass Transit Revolving Fund (PMTF) was squandered, the International Centre for Investigative Reporting icirnigeria.org has found. The fund, administered as a revolving loan by The Infrastructure Bank (TIB) was given out in form of Mass Transit Vehicles to 31 […]

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CHISCO BUS: MAJOR DISASTER AVERTED

According to a report monitored via FRSC news update, what would have been another major disaster to hit a troubled Nation was averted in the early hours of today when a fully loaded 59 passenger-capacity luxury bus belonging to Chisco Transport veered off the road and landed in a ditch. Fortunately no life was lost. Fatigue on the part of […]

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FRSC SETS UP SPECIAL INTERVENTION PATROL FOR OKENE-LOKOJA-GEGU ROAD

On Tuesday, the Zonal Commanding Officer, Federal Road Safety Corps, Zone RS8SQ, Assistant Corps Marshal John Meheux inaugurated the Special Intervention Patrol along the Okene-Zariagi-Lokoja-Koton Karfe-Gegu corridor to arrest the increasing rate of fatal road accidents. This corridor serves as gateway to about 26 states of the Federation and shares boundaries with the Federal Capital Territory.

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