By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) The Second Niger Bridge will be ready for use by December 2022, the Acting Federal Controller of Works, Anambra State, Seyi Martins, has said He said work on the bridge had reached 95 per cent completion. Martins said this at the weekend when he received members of the Council for Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN) at the bridge site for inspection. He said the first phase of the...
ENUGU — The Enugu State House of Assembly has passed a bill for law to establish the Enugu State Roads Fund for the purpose of financing the development, rehabilitation, and maintenance of state and rural roads and for other connected matters (HB. 1, 2022). The bill when assented to by the Governor of the state, Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, will be cited as the Enugu State Roads Fund Law. The Enugu State Roads Fund law shall be...
By Handel Patrick (Staff Reporter) AWKA — The Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ), Anambra State Council, has decried the bad condition of roads in the state and urged the state governor, Prof Chukwuma Soludo, to do quick and repair them. The pen pushers stated this in a communique endorsed by its state chairman, Dr. Odogwu Emeka Odogwu, and made available to journalists in Awka, the Anambra State capital on Thursday. Stating that roads in the...
The Federal Government has approved N3 billion to fund the construction of the Jalingo-Numan Road. The road, which was awarded in March 2017 at the cost of N11 billion, to be completed in July 2019 become a death trap as well is covered by terrorists and armed bandits. The Minister for State, Works and Housing, Engr. Muazu Sambo Jaji made this known over the weekend, during an inspection of Federal roads under construction within Taraba...
ENUGU — The Enugu State House of Assembly on Thursday considered and passed a bill for a law to repeal the Enugu State Road Maintenance Agency Law No. 23 of 2010 and enact the Enugu State Road Maintenance and Development Agency Law to Provide for the establishment of the Enugu State Road Maintenance and Development Agency and for connected purposes (HB. 2), 2022. The passed bill cited as the Enugu State Roads Fund Law will...
ASABA — The Delta Government has approved the construction and rehabilitation of over 30 kilometers of roads to link rural agrarian communities across the state. The Commissioner for Information, Mr. Charles Aniagwu, disclosed this in Asaba, while briefing newsmen on the outcome of the State Executive Council meeting on Tuesday. Aniagwu said the approvals were part of measures designed to urbanise some communities in the three senatorial districts of the state. He listed some of...
The Federal Government, on Thursday, said the Second Niger Bridge (now named Muhammadu Buhari Bridge) and the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway would be completed before the end of 2022. This came as the government said there were no existing contracts to impose tolls on federal roads constructed under the Sukuk fund. The Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this to State House correspondents during a special ministerial briefing organized by the Presidential Communications Team,...
LAGOS — President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday commissioned the Dangote Fertilizer Plant in the Ibeju Lekki area of Lagos. The President inaugurated the multi-billion dollar facility at an event that was well attended by many political, traditional, and religious leaders, this included key members of the private sector from various parts of the country. They include the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan; Speaker of the House of Representatives, Femi Gbajabiamila; Chairman of the Nigeria...
Not minding what supporters and followers of former Governor of Anambra State, Peter Obi might think, the reality, few days to Obiano’s exit from office, very strongly suggests that Obiano has a better approach to continuity than Obi. In ten or twenty years, what will Peter Obi as former governor of Anambra State be remembered for? What will a toddler today remember Peter Obi for, as an adult? Not surprising that people trying to answer...
AWKA — As part of the build-up to his exit from office after eight years, Governor Willie Obiano has today commissioned the ten thousand capacity International Convention Centre built tastefully and furnished to standard. With only minor finishing touches left, Governor Obiano decided to commission the project which is one of his signature projects. The commissioning of the Convention Centre was also marked with a merit award to deserving Anambra State indigenes and other non-indigenes...
