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LASG Removes Shanties On Coastal Road Alignment

29Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Infrastructure, Lagos News, News, Nigeria

LASG Removes Shanties On Coastal Road Alignment

Lagos Shanties Lagos State Government has embarked on the removal of all shanties along the Lekki Coastal road axis in a bid to further protect the Coastal Road alignment. The General Manager, New Towns Development Authority (NTDA), Tpl. Olakunle Aboyeji, who led the exercise on Friday, stated that the squatters and miscreants who had illegally converted the Lekki Coastal Road, Lekki Penisula Scheme I, Maroko beach extension and the adjoining roads to their abode and commercial centre, posed a huge security risk to residents of the area and the adjoining communities. He recalled that each time the stretch of land along the axis was cleared, the dislodged illegal squatters and miscreants, who occupied the roadside and constitute nuisance in the axis, would come back to rebui...

FG Has Procured Six High-Tech Hilux Vehicles To Safeguard Rail Lines

7Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

FG Has Procured Six High-Tech Hilux Vehicles To Safeguard Rail Lines

In a bid to safeguard the rail lines from attack, the federal government yesterday procured and handed over six hilux patrol vehicles inputed with radar scanners to the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) to monitor the Abuja-Kaduna corridor. Government had mulls the idea of installing security gadgets along the Abuja-Kaduna rail tracks following a recent bomb explosion at the corridor. The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, while handing over the vehicles to the management of NRC led by its Managing Director, Mr. Fidet Okhiria at the Idu Train Station, Abuja, said: “We are all aware of the security situation in the country as a whole but, we thought about supporting NRC on the security architecture of the Idu-Abuja rail track.” According to him, “Remember th...

Nigeria Took Chinese Loans Because They Want To Help With Infrastructure – Buhari

6Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Infrastructure, Interview, News, Nigeria

Nigeria Took Chinese Loans Because They Want To Help With Infrastructure – Buhari

President Muhammadu Buhari has said that his government took loans from China because the Asian country was willing to help Nigeria’s infrastructure. Buhari said this on Wednesday during an interview with Channels Television while defending his government’s decision to source loans from China. According to him, anybody that is prepared to come and help Nigeria’s infrastructure to do the roads, rail and power will be welcomed. Recall that according to data from the Debt Management Office, Nigeria has borrowed $2.02 billion as loans from China from 2015 and the nation’s debt portfolio from China has risen to $3.40bn as of March 31, 2021. See Also: FG To Inaugurate Kano-Kaduna Railway December 2022 “We take that (loans) where it is necessary. I told you now of something, what it us...

FG To Inaugurate Kano-Kaduna Railway December 2022

5Jan

By Chinedu IbeakanmaNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

FG To Inaugurate Kano-Kaduna Railway December 2022

The Federal Government has expressed optimism that the Kano-Kaduna railway will be completed and ready for inauguration in Dec. 2022. Mr Rotimi Amaechi, the Minister of Transportation, while inspecting the level of progress on the project in Kano, said that it would be commissioned before President Muhammadu Buhari leaves officer. Amaechi noted that so far, the Federal Government had invested more than 400 million dollars for the actualisation of the project. The minister, however, urged the facilitator of the project, the CCECC, to increase the number of equipment and personnel on site in order to ensure the deadline was met. “We are here basically to find out whether these guys have commenced work and how far they have gone. “This is because they have a target of completin...

With City Of David, Gov Umahi Ends 2021 On A High By Femi Adesina

31Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

With City Of David, Gov Umahi Ends 2021 On A High By Femi Adesina

There’s a City of David, not in Jerusalem, but in Uburu, Ohaozara Local Government Area of Ebonyi State. If the biblical City of David was magnificent, this one is no less so. If the earlier was a sight for sore eyes, the latter equally pulls its weight in grandeur. Governor Dave Umahi, an accomplished engineer, conceived an ultra-modern state-of-the-art medical university for his state. He turned his idea into action, his dream to reality, and out came spectacular and breathtaking King David University of Medical Sciences, a modern City of David. There are some Governors whom my principal, President Muhammadu Buhari loves, irrespective of political parties. Long ago, ever before he joined the All Progressives Congress (APC), Engineer Dave Umahi had always been a special one. Even as...

Critics Won’t Realise Buhari Is A Blessing To Nigeria Until He Leaves Office —Minister

30Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

Critics Won’t Realise Buhari Is A Blessing To Nigeria Until He Leaves Office —Minister

The newly appointed Minister of State for Works and Housing, Mu’azu Sambo, on Wednesday, said President Muhammadu Buhari, has chosen the right direction for infrastructure development in the country. He noted this when he assumed office on Wednesday and was received by the Permanent Secretary, Babangida Hussaini, and staff members of the ministry. Sambo asserted that Nigerians, who doubted Buhari’s capacity would only realise his importance after the end of his administration. Read Also: BREAKING: National Assembly Transmits 2022 Budget To Buhari For Assent “Mr. President is a blessing to this country. I keep saying that the sceptics will not realise this until his excellency is gone. But some of us who know that socio-economic development is tied to massive infrastructure deve...

We’ll Toll Roads To Repay Infrastructure Debts – Emefiele

16Dec

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Finance, Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

We’ll Toll Roads To Repay Infrastructure Debts – Emefiele

The Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria, Godwin Emefiele, has said most of the roads constructed in the country will be tolled to repay the loans used to fund them. Emefiele said this on Wednesday while answering questions after the two-day retreat of the Bankers’ Committee in Lagos. He said, “Most of those roads will be tolled and we know that in many other countries in the world, roads are tolled because those projects are commercially viable. Read Also: Don’t Openly Endorse Any Political Office Seeker, Ex-Nigerian President, Obasanjo Tells Ooni Of Ife, Others “They can be refunded with tolls so that maintenance can be done on a regular basis, and people will pay for it and enjoy good roads, and enjoy good facilities because that is the only way we can fund the infrastruc...

They Said Nothing Was Happening…How About These? By Femi Adesina

12Nov

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

They Said Nothing Was Happening…How About These? By Femi Adesina

As you read this piece, President Muhammadu Buhari and his team are in the French capital, attending the Paris Peace Forum, a gathering of about 30 Presidents and head of governments from around the world. The Nigerian leader is among the few that were asked to deliver a speech. On Wednesday afternoon, we had been at the Palais Elysee, the seat of the French government, where President Buhari paid an official visit to President Emmanuel Macron, who himself had been in Abuja in 2018. Impressive is a mild word to use for the spectacle. Earlier that Wednesday, President Buhari had been at the Shangri-La Hotel, to give a keynote address at the Nigeria International Partnership Forum, put together for Nigerian and French investing community. It was a roll call of the brightest and best in...

Presidential Panel Sells Seven-storey FRCN Lagos Building for N100m

21Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria

Presidential Panel Sells Seven-storey FRCN Lagos Building for N100m

The Presidential Implementation Committee on Federal Government Landed Property has stated that it has the powers to sell or lease out any property of the Federal Government without prior knowledge of the ministry, department or agency using it. The PIC made this known to an ad hoc committee of the House of Representatives, which is investigating the abandonment of Federal Government property across the country. The Secretary of the PIC, Bala Sanusi, while speaking at the resumed investigative hearing of the committee, noted that it would be cumbersome for the presidential panel to inform all the MDAs of its intention to sell or lease out the over 25,000 property handed over to it. Sanusi said this while responding to questions on the sale of a property located on 45, Martins Stre...

Buhari Assures Uzodinma To Assist in Fight Against Insecurity

9Sep

By Obiajulu Joel NwoluNo Comments

Infrastructure, News, Nigeria, Security

Buhari Assures Uzodinma To Assist in Fight Against Insecurity

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured Governor Hope Uzodinma of Imo State that the federal government will help him to surmount security challenges in the state. The president also promised that he would wield his power as the president to address infrastructural deficits of the state. Buhari, who spoke while commissioning the Egbeada-Onitsha bypass road in Owerri, said that he was impressed with the level of development in the state. He said that no society would make any meaningful progress in the face of insecurity and infrastructural deficits. Buhari said that his vision of having a secured Nigeria with huge infrastructural progress had marched with what Uzodinma was doing in the state. The president said, “I have gone round and I am impressed with what I saw. A society...