The Lagos State Government has denied contravening any provision of Federal Highway Regulations while constructing a reinforced concrete dual carriage flyover at Abule-Egba along Lagos-Abeokuta expressway. It provided proofs of compliance to the regulations in in a statement by the Head of Public Affairs, the State’s Ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development, Mr. Shina Odunuga on Wednesday. Different reports […]
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The Federal Government has asked the Supreme Court to declare the Lagos State Wharf Landing Fees Law No 5 of 2009 unconstitutional and to order the state to refund all the monies collected through the law. The law was passed in 2009 when Babatunde Fashola, now the Minister for Power, Works and Housing, was the state governor. It imposes levies […]
Continue reading »An unidentified person suspected to be a police escort was on Friday crushed to death by a trailer that skidded off the road in Ugep, headquarters of Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River State. The incident, which happened at about 8pm close to the Eckankar Temple along the busy Calabar-Ikom Expressway, was said to have happened after the driver […]
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A police driver has killed two people while attempting to stop an overloaded commercial bus on the Asaba-Ibusa-Ogwashi-Uku Expressway, in the Oshimili North Local Government Area of Delta State. Several sources, who witnessed the accident, claimed that the driver of the commercial bus and a male suspect, who the police were taking to the state command in Asaba, died on the […]
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The Niger Delta Development Commission has debunked claims by the Bayelsa State Government on the rehabilitation of 14 roads in the state. The Acting Managing Director/Chief Executive Officer of NDDC, Mrs. Ibim Semenitari, in a statement in Yenagoa on Sunday described as “untrue and shocking” recent claims by the Bayelsa State Government that it was intervening on the same roads […]
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The Kogi State Governor, Alhaji Yahaya Bello, over the weekend inaugurated the construction of some roads across the three senatorial districts of the state. According to the government, the projects will cost over N10bn. The 18.3 kilometre-long road networks in the Kogi Central include Agassa-Ahache-Upogoro road, Ogaminana-Ebogogo, Itape-Eika-Kuroko and Obehira-Ihima-Obangede roads in Okene, Adavi and Okehi local government areas. Others […]
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The Nigerian Navy Ship, NNS Jubilee, Ikot Abasi, Akwa Ibom State, have seized three wooden Cotonou boats with 47,000 litres of product suspected to be illegally refined Automative Gas Oil. The commander of the ship, Commodore Saidu Garba, who said this in Ikot Abasi on Saturday, praised the Nigerian Navy for achieving the results.
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International and local companies, as well as politicians in Nigeria, have started lobbying the Federal Government in a bid to take over the management of the country’s airports that are up for concession. It was learnt that many companies had already started making presentations to the Minister of State for Aviation, Senator Hadi Sirika, and his team, despite the agitations […]
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The Federal Road Safety Corps has issued a warning to 21,744 commercial motorists between October 1 and 6, 2016, for their failure to install speed limiters in their buses and trucks. The corps described the warning as an advisory enforcement, which does not attract any penalty or fines.
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No fewer than thirteen people, comprising 13 females and two males, have died in two separate boat accidents in Niger State. The accident, said to be involving mostly females occurred in the early morning of Tuesday when the boat they were travelling in capsized on the Kontagora River in Magama Local Government Area of the state. The accident, according to […]
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government would reintroduce the use of weigh bridges on the nation’s highways. Fashola, who made the disclosure while answering questions from newsmen at the Made in Nigeria Summit 2016 at the Eko Atlantic City in Lagos, said that the weigh bridges were not working […]
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In a development bound to bring shame to Africa biggest oil producer, Ghana has started exporting fuel and gas oil to Nigeria, Benin Republic, Burkina Faso, Niger and Mali from the Bolgatanga Petroleum Depot run by the state-owned Bulk Oil Storage and Transport (BOST) Company Limited. Ghana’s Minister of Petroleum, Mr Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah, made this known yesterday at press […]
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