The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has granted permission to the Lagos State Government to embark on a total reconstruction of the International Airport Road from Oshodi.
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The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has granted permission to the Lagos State Government to embark on a total reconstruction of the International Airport Road from Oshodi.
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The Federal Government’s total contractual commitment to the construction sector particularly roads and bridges is currently valued at about N2.6 trillion.
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The Federal Government is considering a proposal to involve the former concessionaire of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, Bi-Courtney Highway Services Limited, in the funding of the completion and management of the reconstruction of the road.
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The Nigerian Shippers’ Council (NSC) has called on the Federal Government to urgently repair the deplorable port access roads before the rainy season sets in.
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The Federal Executive Council (FEC) wednesday approved whooping N54 billion for the reconstruction of popular but collapsed Odukpani-Itu-Ikot Ekpene federal highway in Cross River State.
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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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