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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