ABUJA — Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing says construction and maintenance of bridges across the country are creating new economies not known to exist in the system before. Fashola said this when a delegation of Ohafia Traditional Rulers and Leaders of Thought led by Awa Kalu (SAN) paid him a courtesy visit on Thursday in Abuja. Kalu said the visit was to publicly acknowledge that governance works and that the Federal Government came...

ABUJA — The federal government will borrow less than N100 billion for the Kaduna-Kano standard gauge rail project which will commence in July pending loan approval by the National Assembly. The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi told newsmen on Sunday while inspecting the Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge railway ahead of the June 10 date set for the inauguration. Last year, the federal government had asked the national assembly to approve a $5.3 billion Chinese loan request...

History was made on Saturday in Adamawa with the commissioning of the first-ever flyover in the Northeastern states of Nigeria by former Vice President Abubakar Atiku which was constructed by the Fintiri led administration. The overhead bridge at Total Filling Station Junction includes provision of a roundabout to distribute traffic to all roads at the ground level and extra lanes on the roads on each side of the roads on the ground level. Commissioning the...