The Federal Government on Tuesday inaugurated the Abuja-Kaduna road which was given an emergency facelift with the sum of N1.1 billion. Mr Babatunde Fashola, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, who inaugurated road, commended the contractor for completing the project on scheduled. He said the project was awarded on Jan. 7 with completion period of 50 days.
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The Federal Government is currently working towards streamlining the number of agencies operating in the nation’s ports to only six from about eight. This is part of the decisions reached at an expanded meeting of the Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council presided over by the Acting President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja on Tuesday. According to a […]
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The Nigerian Government on Wednesday approved the construction of the Cameroon-Nigeria border link bridge as part of its efforts to strengthen the bilateral ties between the two countries. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, who briefed State House Correspondents shortly after the meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, presided by Acting President Yemi Osinbajo, said the […]
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The Cross River State Government on Monday, threatened to adopt an aggressive approach if the Federal Government (FG) fails to grant her the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) final permit to commence the construction of its 260 kilometre super highway. According to the state’s commissioner of Land and Housing, Mr. John Inyang, during a press briefing in Calabar, the Ayade’s led […]
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The Federal Government has disclosed it will introduce speed cameras on Nigeria’s roads to help the Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC) curtail excessive speeding by motorists and improve safe use of the roads. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, said this yesterday after he inspected ongoing repair works on the different sections of the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway […]
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The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, yesterday disclosed that the Federal Government has released its counterpart fund for the construction of the Lagos-Ibadan Modernisation Railway Project. The minister said this at the second Presidential Business Forum which was presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo in Abuja.
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Several groups have rejected the reintroduction of tolling on federal roads by the Federal Government. They said the move showed that the President Muhammadu Buhari administration was “insensitive” to the plight of Nigerians, especially during this period of economic recession. The groups also said it was not right for the Federal Government to re-introduce tolling on roads in the country, […]
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The Minister of State for Aviation, Mr. Hadi Sirika Wednesday, appealed to Emirates, Kenya Airways and other foreign airlines which threatened recently to suspend flights from the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja due to the scarcity of foreign exchange and dwindling passenger traffic to reconsider their decisions. The airlines had said scarcity of foreign exchange and dwindling passenger traffic […]
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The Federal Government said yesterday that American company, General Electric (GE) would take over the management of the Nigeria Railway Corporation (NRC) under a concession plan between January and March 2017. Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Chibuike Amaechi, who made this known yesterday in Abuja while speaking at the first International Transportation Conference, said that the 18-month window period before the […]
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The Senate has passed a motion for the reintroduction of toll gates on Federal roads in the country. In the motion, Suleiman Nazif, a Senator from Bauchi North, who sponsored it, expressed dismay over the state of roads in the country, saying they had become a “national shame and embarrassment”. He said the re-establishment of toll gates would solve “the […]
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The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, says that the Federal Government is committed to the dualisation of the entire section of the trans Sahara route in Nigeria. The minister gave the assurance while declaring open the 65th session of the Trans Saharan Road Liaison Session on Monday in Abuja. Fashola, who was represented at the occasion […]
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The National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. Babagana Monguno (Rtd), handed over two aircraft in the Presidential fleet to the Nigerian Air Force. Monguno handed over the two aircraft, Augusta AW101 Very Important Personality Helicopters to the Minister of Defence, Mansur Dan Ali, in the presence of the Chief of Air Staff, Air Marshal Sadique Abubakar, his Army counterpart, Lt. Gen. […]
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