•Peter Obi and Bola Tinubu The 2023 presidential candidate of the Labour Party, Mr Peter Obi, has called on President Bola Tinubu to discontinue the Lagos-Calabar coastal highway project to save jobs for Nigerians. Obi said the project is a misplaced priority by the federal government, adding that jobs would be lost to add to […]
Five years after the Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ICPC, launched with fanfare, a robust effort to verify the execution of constituency projects by Nigerian lawmakers across the country, the anti-graft agency has failed to prosecute those it indicted in its yearly reports in accordance with the Act settin...
•Atiku and Tinubu Former Vice President Atiku Abubakar yesterday described the N15.6 trillion attached to the 700km Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway as its tentative cost by the Minister of Works, Dave Umahi, as wasteful and a highway to fraud. In a statement emanating from his media office, he criticised the minister for altering the initial pla...
•Tinubu and Atiku The presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party in the 2023 general election, Atiku Abubakar, has dared President Bola Tinubu to disclose the full cost of the Lagos-Calabar highway project. Atiku said in a statement today that the Tinubu administration could not continue to keep silent on how much public funds woul...
•A train The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike, has hinted that the Abuja light rail project is near 95% completion, saying that the project will be inaugurated in May by President Bola Tinubu. The minister made the disclosure during a courtesy visit by the Belgium Ambassador to Nigeria, Pieter Leenknegt, in [&hellip...
•Governor Alex Otti Governor Alex Otti of Abia State has explained that a number of things contributed to the delay of the 181-megawatt geometric power plant in the Aba area of the state. “This is a project that was started in 2004” during the administration of Governor Orji Uzor Kalu, Otti of the Labour Party […]
The Red Line Rail Project in Lagos, Nigeria, represents a significant infrastructure development aimed at improving transportation within the city. President Bola Tinubu today inaugurated this project in Lagos. There are several key aspects worth noting. Our correspondent provides some insights into the new rail line, reports Channels TV: THE ...
The federal government yesterday said the Port Harcourt Refining Company was still being test-run, adding that refined petroleum products from the plant would hit the market soon. It disclosed this at a briefing in Abuja, as oil marketers expressed worry that the recent crash of the naira against the United States dollar might lead to [&hellip...
Six years after the $105 million-worth of special intervention to electrify public varsities and some tertiary hospitals nationwide, several beneficiaries listed in the phase one of the initiative are yet to get the power supply. Besides the trio of Alex Ekwueme Federal University, Ndufu-Alike Ikwo (AE-FUNAI), Ebonyi State, Usmanu Danfodiyo Un...
•Olu Agunloye A former Minister of Power and Steel, Olu Agunloye, has been released from the Kuje Correctional Centre after meeting his bail condition. Our correspondent learnt that Agunloye was released yesterday evening, reports Saturday PUNCH. The spokesperson Federal Capital Territory Command of the Nigerian Correctional Service, Adamu Duz...