The Corps Marshal, Federal Road Safety Corps, Boboye Oyeyemi, has announced that enforcement of the speed limiters on commercial vehicles will commence nationwide on October 1, 2016. Oyeyemi said this on Wednesday in Abuja during a stakeholders’ meeting with relevant government agencies and transport unions.
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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 […]
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As part of the efforts to address frequent disruptions to the supply of crude oil to the Kaduna Refinery and Petrochemical Company (KRPC) as a result of the Niger Delta militancy, the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) is considering importing crude oil from Chad and Niger Republic, investigations by THISDAY have revealed. This is coming as the President of the […]
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NNPC Group Managing Director, Maikanti Baru has ruled out the possibility of any increment in petrol pump price. Baru said this today to state house correspondents while reacting to media reports that oil marketers may soon increase pump price of petrol due to the scarcity of dollar and high exchange rates. According to Baru, he has not gotten any presidential […]
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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 […]
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The Federal and Lagos State Governments Friday disclosed plan to save Marine Beach Bridge (Apapa-Ijora Bridge), which connects Apapa Central Business District (CBD) to Lagos Island and Lagos-Ibadan expressway via Ikorodu road. Before they unveiled the new intervention, a portion of the bridge had caved in, thus putting its structural integrity to question and causing intractable gridlocks that often paralysed […]
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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 […]
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The nightmare being witnessed by motorists and commuters on the Benin/Onitsha expressway as a result of the failed portion of the road shortly before the Asaba end of the Niger Bridge may continue as attempts by the Delta State government to fix the road has again been resisted by officials of the federal government. It would be recalled that the […]
Continue reading »The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, on Thursday said federal government had fixed the cost of travelling on the newly completed Abuja to Kaduna rail lines at N500 per passenger per trip on the economy class. Answering journalists questions after the final inspection of the project which is due for inauguration by President Muhammadu Buhari next week in Abuja, […]
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The Federal Government and local automobile manufacturers have disagreed on the enforcement of a 70 per cent tariff on imported used vehicles. While the latter want the Federal government to commence the enforcement with immediate effect the second phase of the imposed 35 per cent tariff on imported used vehicles to discourage their importation, the government says it will only […]
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The Federal Government few days ago signed an agreement with the China Civil Engineering Construction Company (CCECC) for the construction of the Lagos-Calabar coastal railway line at $11.117billion Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi said the first segment of the rail line, which comprises Calabar, Uyo, Aba and Port-Harcourt will be ready within two years.
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The Federal Government has inaugurated a technical committee for the establishment of the Kaduna Dry Port with a view to decongesting the country’s seaports. In March this year, the Federal Executive Council approved the establishment of Inland Container Depots (ICD) in the country and explained that the concept would be run on a public-private partnership, using the build, own, operate […]
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