For three consecutive days, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing and former Lagos State governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola, crisscrossed the six states in the South-south geo-political zone, assessing the state of the roads and monitoring progress reports both in the works and the housing sectors. Attention to details “If you noticed, for the first 20 minutes, I wasn’t […]
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The Federal Government has announced that it would raise a bond to pay states governments for verified claims of money spent on rehabilitating and reconstructing federal roads in their states. The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who stated this yesterday, said the federal government was mindful of its obligations and desirous of discharging them. The minister […]
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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, 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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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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Governor Olusegun Mimiko has approved a special intervention programme to give attention to the deplorable conditions of some federal roads in Ondo State. At a media briefing in Akure yesterday, the Commissioner for Information, Mr. Kayode Akinmade and the Chairman of the Ondo State Agency for Roads Maintenance and Construction (OSARMCO), Kehinde Oshikoya, said the government was giving the roads […]
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Fulani herdsmen have continued to graze their cattle in Abuja in defiance of an order by the Federal Capital Territory Minister, Muhammed Bello, directing them to stop the practice in the FCT. Checks on Tuesday indicated that the herdsmen still grazed their cattle on every available green lawn, and grass along the roads and sometimes grinding traffic to a halt.
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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.
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Council chairmen in Cross River State on Saturday moaned over the abandoned state of federal roads, with a call to the Federal Government to urgently fix the roads in order to assuage the suffering of motorists. The deplorable state of Calabar-Itu, Calabar-Ikom-Ogoja, Calabar-Oban and Calabar-Ikang roads had over the years been a concern for motorists going through them.
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