In the last one week, the Lagos State government has been pre-occupied with the commissioning of inner roads, executed across the state under the 114-Road Project initiated by the Akinwunmi Ambode-led adminstration. The roads spread across the 57 local councils and local council development areas, with each of them having two. Within the period under review, Ambode commissioned about 10 […]
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The administration of President Muhammadu Buhari inherited road contractual liabilities worth N1.5tn, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said. Fashola said this in a statement made available to our correspondent in Abuja on Sunday by his Special Adviser, Communications, Mr. Hakeem Bello. The minister said the ministry inherited 206 roads that were not budgeted for […]
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Governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos on Friday said that 89 indigenous contractors reconstructed some of the 114 inner roads being inaugurated by the State Government. Ambode, represented by his Deputy, Dr Idiat Adebule, said that the aim was to encourage local construction companies. The governor made this known at the inauguration of the reconstructed Ketu Adaloko Road at Ijanikin in […]
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The Minister of Power Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has highlighted the specific steps being taken in the infrastructure sectors to reenergize the economy, saying the measures were meant to correct the mistakes of yesterday and move the country from economic stagnation. Fashola, who spoke at the Wilson Centre in Washington DC, USA, while presenting a paper on “Leadership […]
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Eager to see the return to normalcy in communities, the Kukawa Council Chairman in Borno state, Alhaji Habib Ali Kekeno has pleaded with the Nigerian military to re-open the closed roads in the Lake Chad Basin areas for possible relocation of the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs). The roads were closed due to the activities of the insurgents, which led to […]
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The Enugu State chapter of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has commended Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi’s brave initiative in embarking on the immediate rehabilitation of the failed sections of the Federal Government road along Oji River-Ugwuoba Anambra State border by old road. The road was reported to have collapsed partly because of increased stress on it, caused by movement of heavy […]
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Scores of women from Iwhre-Nene community in Ughelli North Local Government Area of Delta State yesterday blocked a side of the Ughelli axis of the East-West Road in protest over the alleged intimidation and arrest of indigenes of the community by soldiers on a manhunt for members of the Urhobo/Isoko militant group, Niger Delta Greenland Justice Mandate. Operatives of 122 […]
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Work has finally started on the Lagos Cable Car project, the ambitious $275 million initiative to ease transportation difficulties in the State. Dayo Mobereola, Lagos Commissioner for transportation in an interview with the Guardian said that upon completion, cable car project will have eight stations in three routes, in order to handle the estimated 240,000 trips daily.
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Chisco Transport Limited and Coscharis Motors Limited, two industry giants, are set to jointly delight customers on the Chisco platform. At a joint media briefing held recently in Lagos to formally announce a unique loyalty campaign tagged “Rides and Rewards Promo”, the two companies together with other stakeholders present unveiled the details of the campaign which majorly aims to digitalise […]
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Governor Olusegun Mimiko has approved a special intervention programme to give attention to the deplorable conditions of some federal roads in Ondo State. At a media briefing in Akure yesterday, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade and the Chairman of the Ondo State Agency for Roads Maintenance and Construction (OSARMCO), Kehinde Oshikoya, said the government was giving the roads […]
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A driver attached to the speaker of Taraba State House of Assembly was yesterday stabbed with a knife by a kidnapper, who attempted to take away a daughter of the lawmaker at his house in Jalingo, the state capital. According to one of the drivers attached to the speaker, who was in the house at the time of the incident, […]
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The Obama administration on Tuesday unveiled new fuel efficiency standards for heavy-duty vehicles, which it said would both reduce carbon emissions and save drivers billions of dollars at the pump. The standards, unveiled as President Barack Obama enters the last five months of his final term, apply to heavy duty vehicles which account for 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions […]
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