Assessing the level of degradation on the environment by illegal miners as well as enforcing the state order to seal up all illegal mining sites, the Enugu State Commissioner for Environment and Climate Change, Prof. Sam Ugwu, laments the extensive ecological disaster caused by the miners to her citizens and environment. “The illegal deforestation, diversion of water bodies and degradation of hundreds of hectares of land by the miners could trigger ecological disaster if nothing...

The Enugu State Governor, Dr. Peter Ndubuisi Mbah urges the Federal Government of Nigeria to reconsider the current model of road maintenance in the nation and adopt concession of all federal roads in each state to the state governments in collaboration with the private sector for proper maintenance and sustainability. Governor Mbah made this call when he and his entourage visited the site of the collapsed bridge between the New Artisan flyover and the NNPC...

The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, Nyesom Wike has approved a three-month grace period for 189 titleholders, who have obtained Building Plan Approvals but are yet to commence development on their property. The Director of Information and Communication in the FCTA, Muhammad Sule, said in a statement that among those given the three-month grace are 21 embassies, and 168 others. The statement read in parts: “The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, (FCT),...