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FASHOLA INSPECTS OYO-OGBOMOSO ROAD, SAYS FG WILL NOT REST UNTIL NIGERIANS ENJOY GOOD ROADS (PICTURES)
The Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, has said that there is no respite yet for the Federal Government until Nigerians are happy with the state of our roads comparable to the best infrastructural facilities available anywhere in the world.
Continue reading »WE’VE PAID N700BN FOR ROAD PROJECTS – FG
The Federal Government has paid about N700bn out of the N2.1tn liabilities for the construction of 206 road projects across the country, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, has said. Although the minister was not specific if it was the present government that paid the sum, he, however, explained that out of the N300bn already released by […]
Continue reading »WE INHERITED 206 UNCOMPLETED ROADS – FASHOLA
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, said on Tuesday that the Federal Government inherited 206 uncompleted roads from the last administration. He added that contractors of most of the projects had since been mobilised to site. Fashola said his ministry was working with lean resources, adding that it was determined to do more in the interest […]
Continue reading »FG PARTIALLY SHUTS DOWN APAPA-IJORA BRIDGE, ENGINEERING DRAWINGS MISSING
The Federal Government yesterday shutdown the Apapa-Ijora Bridge in Lagos to outward bound traffic for quick rehabilitation, even as it admitted that the engineering drawings for the bridge constructed in the 1970s, are missing. THISDAY had raised the red flag last week over the extreme deterioration of the bridge, which has massive holes that have exposed the steel rods supporting […]
Continue reading »WHO WILL SAVE APAPA-IJORA BRIDGE FROM COLLAPSE?
Residents of Apapa and those doing one form of business or the other in the town were jolted penultimate Saturday when they woke up to see that a portion of the Apapa-Ijora Bridge has caved-in. The bridge, which is a major entry point into Apapa, where Nigeria’s busiest and most utilised seaports; Wharf, Tincan and Apapa Ports are located, has […]
Continue reading »APPROVAL TO SPEND ON ROADS RECEIVED– FASHOLA
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Thursday said his ministry had received the required authority to spend on road projects. According to him, the government will pay more attention to roads with the highest traffic, citing the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway as an example. The Federal Government had on Tuesday announced that so far it had released N280bn […]
Continue reading »WORK RESUMES ON LAGOS-IBADAN EXPRESSWAY NEXT WEEK –FASHOLA
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), says contractors will resume work on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway next week. Fashola, who spoke at the inaugural Buharimeter Town Hall meeting in Abuja on Thursday, said contractors had abandoned several projects because the last administration owed them money.
Continue reading »ON THE ROADS NIGERIA NEEDS
Given the scale of the challenges facing Nigeria over infrastructure and Babatunde Fashola’s unique position in which he has been saddled with fixing it on the three most critical fronts, it is understandable if the Minister of Power, Works and Housing sometimes seems overwhelmed. When he said at a town hall meeting in Lagos the other day that the Federal […]
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