•Nkpa Bridge under construction The Office of the Deputy Speaker, House of Representatives has written to the Ecological Office over some technical deficiencies found on the newly constructed Nkpa bridge in Bende Federal Constituency of Abia State. It will be recalled that the Deputy Speaker, Rt. Hon. Benjamin Okezie Kalu who represents the co...
The federal government through the Office of the Accountant General of the Federation has mandated all FG-owned Ministries, Departments, and Agencies to remit five percent retention fees deducted from contractors’ payments at the Central Bank of Nigeria. A memo signed by the Accountant General of the Federation, OluwaToyin Madein, tagged OAGF/...
•Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye Minister of Women Affairs, Uju Kennedy-Ohanenye, has lamented the paucity of funds in her minister, saying she will approach her colleague, the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun, to seek support in paying some contractors who executed projects for her minist...
•NSCDC operatives The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission is probing 10 senior officers of the Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps over an alleged N7.5bn fraud. The anti-graft agency has also invited 10 contractors linked with the alleged fraud, reports The PUNCH. The EFCC Chairman, Ola Olukoyede, had on April 26, 2024, written a let...
The Federal Road Maintenance Agency (FERMA) in Kano has lamented over how some unqualified contractors get contracts worth millions of naira. Acting Federal Road Maintenance Engineer in the State, Ali Abdu, lamented over this when he appeared before the House Committee on FERMA, on Tuesday. He briefed the lawmakers on the activities of the age...
Road contractors are in for a tough time as the price of bitumen, a major component used in the production of asphalt, soared by 150 percent within a period of seven months, between August 2023 and March 2024. Investigation by this paper showed that 20 tons of bitumen, which was sold at N854,375 in August […]
•Umahi (R) The federal government has said there would be no more project variation after mobilisation fee has been paid on a project. Minister of Works, Engr. Dave Umahi who disclosed this in Lagos, said many contractors were fighting him over project variation, declaring that the policy of the federal government is that there would […...
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