•Bureau of Public Procurement DG, Dr Adebowale Adedokun The Bureau of Public Procurement has announced plans to blacklist contractors who violate procurement rules as part of efforts to strengthen accountability and curb abuses in public contracting nationwide. The Director-General of the BPP, Adebowale Adedokun, disclosed this in Abuja today ...
•Taiwo Oyedele Contractors and officials of MDAs have called for action by the newly appointed Minister of Finance, Taiwo Oyedele, on backlog of unpaid government obligations. Stakeholders in the public and private sectors said the minister faces an immediate test of leadership, amid calls for intervention to address liquidity constraints thre...
Three Rivers State-based firms that specialise in renting houseboats for operations in the waterways have dragged the Nigerian Army to the Federal High Court sitting in Port Harcourt over 26 months unpaid rents, and the seizure of their boats. The plaintiffs, Peaches Integrated Services Limited, Godsam Industrial Services Limited and Etucom In...
•Lawyers protest at finance ministry, Abuja over selective payments to contractors About 500 lawyers today stormed the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja to protest alleged selective payment of debts owed to indigenous contractors in the country. The lawyers, operating under the banner of Concerned Lawyers for Probity and Justice, demonstrat...
•Protesting contractors Local contractors have again staged a peaceful protest at the entrance of the Federal Ministry of Finance in Abuja over alleged continued delays in payments. Under the umbrella of the All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria (AICAN), the protesters are lamenting the delay in the completion and commissioning of ...
Contractors have laid a coffin at the entrance of the Finance Ministry headquarters in Abuja. The contractors under the aegis of All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria (AICAN) started a non-stop protest at the ministry yesterday over debts being owed by the federal government, reports Daily Trust. They accused the federal government...
•The protesting govt contractors Local contractors under the All Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria returned to the Federal Ministry of Finance yesterday, blocking both entrances as they pressed for the payment of what they described as long-overdue debts for completed government projects. The protesters, led by the association’s Na...
•Governor Umo Eno Akwa Ibom State governor, Pastor Umo Eno has directed his administration’s appointees, contractors, and stakeholders, to share their benefits from government with rural people at the grassroots, in order to foster a more equitable and prosperous society. Speaking during a special Sunday Service at the All Nations Christ...
•The protesting contractors Members of the Indigenous Contractors Association of Nigeria today staged a protest at the National Assembly gate in Abuja, demanding payment for completed projects. The contractors accused the federal government of failing to pay debts owed for projects executed, completed, and commissioned since 2024, despite repe...
•Okpebholo (wearing blue faze cap) on road inspection tour today Twenty-four hours after his swearing-in, Edo State Governor, Senator Monday Okpebholo, today, ordered contractors in the state to return to sites and immediately fix failed portions within the Benin metropolis. Governor Okpebholo gave this directive during an inspection tour of U...
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