By Ukpono Ukpong President Muhammadu Buhari has directed that States should no longer intervene on federal roads. The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, revealed this while briefing State House correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, at the Presidential Villa, Abuja. He disclosed that […]
The Minister of information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed Wednesday said that the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration has so far reimbursed state governments about N447 billion for expenses incurred on construction and rehabilitation of federal roads and bridges. Alhaji Mohammed made the disclosure while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the Federal Executive […]
Mr Tunde Lemo, Chairman, Federal Emergency Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA), on Monday said that the agency had started rehabilitation of bad spots on federal roads across the country. Speaking during a Leadership Mentorship series at Caleb British International School, Lekki, Lagos, Lemo said that FERMA was responsible for only 20 per cent of about 200,000 kilometers […]
Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle Amosun, has called on the Federal Government to refund money spent by his government on the rehabilitation of federal roads across the state. Amosun made this call while receiving members of the Senate Committee on Works, who were in the state to assess federal road projects, in his Oke-Mosan, Abeokuta […]
Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State has appealed to the federal government to refund the over N22b the state has spent on the rehabilitation of federal roads to enable it undertake other crucial development projects. The Governor, who spoke when the House of Representatives’ Committee on Works paid him a courtesy call at Government House, […]
Ask, what can N11 billion do? Quite a lot of course, although not for a money-guzzling but critical sector like road. This is the situation of federal highways this year as the Minister of Works, Architect Mike Onolomemen, disclosed on Monday that only N11 billion was allocated for capital projects of the ministry in the […]