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ABUJA — The Nigeria Governors Forum has rejected the Electricity Bill 2022, which they argued, is against the interest of the states because it seeks to re-establish a centrally-controlled electricity sector. This is contained in a letter by the Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum (NGF) Dr. Kayode Fayemi, addressed to the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Power, Gabriel Suswan. The NGF spokesman Abdulrazaque Bello-Barkindo in a statement noted that Fayemi, who is Ekiti...

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ABUJA — The federal executive council (FEC) has announced the approval of N56.17 billion for the completion of the Abaji to Koton Karfe road on the Abuja-Lokoja highway. Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, disclosed this at the end of the FEC meeting at the statehouse on Wednesday. According to him, the ministry had approval for the termination and re-award of the 49 kilometres section of Abaji to Koton Karfe road to Messers Galt...

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KANO — Nigeria’s Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, says Kano State will house the biggest rail station in the country. Over 5 Billion has been sunk so far to realize the Dala Inland Dry port. The minister said this when a delegation from Kano, led by Gov. Abdullahi Ganduje, visited him in Abuja to discuss the rail and Dala inland dry port in the State. He said the visit of the Kano delegation was also...

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KANO — Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Transportation, has indicated that a lack of adequate funding may reduce the pace of work and completion of the Kano-Kaduna railway project. The minister disclosed this while inspecting work on the project in Kano on Friday. According to him, Journalists in the country are grappling with some financial challenges due to the economic downturn. “I have never denied that we are having financial challenges, and that is because of...

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ABUJA — The Managing Director, Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), Mr. Fidet Okhiria, has expressed hope that the country, within the next five to 10 years would be linked by rail. Okhiria told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday that this would be achieved in line with the determination and will of the present administration. He added that the Minister of Transportation Rotimi Amaechi was also making endless and tireless efforts to ensure the...

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ABUJA — The Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of North East Development Commission (NEDC), Mohammed Alkali, says the commission has budgeted $6.7 billion to rebuild the war-ravaged Northeast region of the country in the next four years. Alkali, disclosed this during the unveiling of the region’s Master Plan in Abuja on Wednesday, at a consultative meeting with stakeholders and security agencies, noted that the money will also be spent on peacebuilding and developmental projects...

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LAGOS — The Minister of Transportation, Mr. Rotimi Amaechi, has applauded the pace of work on the Lekki Deep Seaport project and expressed hope that services would commence at the port by the last quarter of 2022. The minister, who undertook an assessment tour of the port site on Sunday, described the level of construction work as “very impressive”, and commended the management of the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) for availing the contractors the necessary...

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Citizens would be able to look after themselves when infrastructure is adequately provided in the country according to president Mohammed Buhari. He said this on Thursday during his meeting with Mohammed Al-Jasser, the president of the Islamic Development Bank (IDB), at the sidelines of the Paris Peace Forum in France. This was documented in a statement by Femi Adesina, the presidential spokesperson. The president pledged that his administration will stay devoted to providing infrastructures for...

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LAGOS — Mr. Mohammed Bello-Koko, Acting Managing Director of Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA), has said that the two Lagos seaports located in Lekki and Tin Can Island were operating “far beyond their installed capacities”. “What it simply means is that if they were built to handle 500,000 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs), for instance, probably they are now handling about 700, 000 TEUs,” he told newsmen on Sunday in Lagos. He said that the situation had...

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LAGOS — The Nigerian Institution of Civil Engineers (NICE) wants its members to play a frontline role in the panel to investigate the cause of the 21-storey building collapse in Ikoyi. Its Chairman, Dr. Jang Tanko made expression in a statement made available to newsmen in Lagos on Friday. Tanko stated that the technical knowledge possessed by civil and structural engineers was needed to ensure a thorough and fruitful inquiry. He said that some investigations...

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