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Contractors return to site, begin rehabilitation of Agbara-Badagry Expressway

The contractors in charge of reconstructing the Lagos-Badagry Expressway segment between Agbara and Badagry are back on the job. Due to a lack of funds, the construction company, CGC Nigeria Limited, took all of its trucks and earth-moving equipment off the site all at once at the end of August to the surprise of local Read More…

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FG authorises MTN’s N202.8bn tax to finish Enugu-Onitsha Expressway

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved MTN Nigeria PLC, a telecommunications operator, finishing the ongoing Enugu-Onitsha expressway at a cost of N202.8 billion using the Federal Government’s Tax Credit Scheme. This information was provided to the State House reporters by Minister of Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Police Affairs Maigari Dingiyadi, and Read More…

Housing Infrastructure Nigeria

Fashola presses directors on practical methods of land administration and management

Mr. Babatunde Fashola (SAN), the Minister of Works and Housing, has encouraged Directors of Lands at the Federal and State levels to give answers to problems impeding land management and administration nationally. At the 27th Conference of Directors of Lands in the Federal, States, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs), which is taking place in Abuja on Read More…

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Lagos to become Africa’s model mega city by 2052 – Sanwo-Olu

The governor of Lagos State, Babajide Sanwo-Olu, says that there is a plan to make Lagos the model megacity for all of Africa by 2052. At the 9th Ehingbeti Lagos Economic Summit, which took place on Victoria Island on Tuesday, Sanwo-Olu revealed this. He said that the government had put in a lot of work Read More…

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Sanwo-Olu gets FG’s approval to construct Lekki Airport

Hadi Sirika, the Minister of Aviation, handed the proposed Lekki-Epe International Airport’s official Letter of Approval to Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu on Tuesday. At the 9th Ehingbeti Lagos Economic Summit, which was held at the Eko Hotel and Suites, Victoria Island, Sirika delivered the letter to the governor on behalf of the Federal Government. Read More…

Infrastructure Metro Top Story Traffic

Diversion: Maryland/Mende underpass to be closed to traffic from Tuesday

Traffic would be diverted from the Maryland/Mende Underpass from Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2022, for the continuation of the Opebi/Ojota Link bridge construction. The Commissioner for Transportation, Dr. Frederic Oladeinde, made the disclosure in a statement in Lagos on Sunday. Oladeinde assures that alternative routes had been mapped out to ease movement during the course of Read More…

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Buhari administration apologises to Nigerians over long traffic on Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration has apologised for the hardship road users face on the Berger-OPIC axis of the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while encouraging them to endure. Forosola Oloyede, the acting federal controller of works in Lagos, said: “The government feels the pains of the people, especially residents of Lagos and Ogun states, who are at the Read More…

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Lagos commissions biggest food security systems and logistics hub in Sub-Suharan Africa

The Lagos State Government has commissioned the construction of what will be the largest Food Security Systems and Central Logistics Park in sub-Saharan Africa as it moves to reduce vulnerability to food shortages and guarantee uninterrupted food supplies. The groundbreaking ceremony was performed on Wednesday by Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu, at the site of the facility Read More…

Infrastructure Nigeria

FEC approves N20.1billion for Lagos, Kebbi, Taraba roads

On Wednesday, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved N11.1 billion for the reconstruction of an intra-city road in Lagos State. Babatunde Fashola, Minister of Works and Housing, divulged this while briefing State House Correspondents at the end of the cabinet meeting by President Muhammadu Buhari. He said: “The council approved two memoranda presented by the Read More…