Used to the “drop” culture, taxi operators are battling to stop the Lagos State Government from enforcing the taxi operation law. Is the law inimical to their interest? ADEYINKA ADERIBIGBE reports that enforcement of the law is the way to go. Nobody can say how and when taxi operators started the “drop” culture in Lagos. […]
Members of the Road Transport Employers Association of Nigeria, RTEAN, have collectively employed about 500,000 Nigerians, the National President of the association, Alhaji Isiwele Shehu has said. The employments comprised of drivers, motor boys and office workers and are spread across the country. Members collectively have more than 250,000 vehicles across the country, he said. […]
Julius Berger Nigeria Plc., who is currently handling the ongoing rehabilitation of the Barliet to Ilasa section of the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway says it will be completed next week. The firm had been mobilized to site in May, by Gov. Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State following the public’s constant worry over their hardship on the dilapidated […]
RESIDENTS of Miniorlu in Obio/Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State have appealed to Governor Nyesom Wike to repair the road linking their community. The road, which had been in bad shape for the past three years, was graded late last year by Winners’ Chapel Church in Mgbuoba. Most shops and businesses located along the […]
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, has said the federal government will need as much as N1.7 trillion to complete about 206 road projects it awarded in the past. Fashola however noted that the three ministries under him have only N433 billion earmarked for them in the 2016 budget. He explained […]
The Lagos State Public Works Corporation has chosen April as the completion date for the rehabilitation of the bad portion of the Ile-Epo end of the Lagos-Abeokuta Expressway. According to a statement signed by the Head, Public Affairs, LSPWC, Mr. Yomi Oladapo, the state government has renewed its commitment to speedily complete the construction of […]
The House of Representatives has asked the federal government to direct an immediate rehabilitation of the road leading to the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos. The House said a contract for the complete reconstruction of the road into an 8-lane dual carriageway with 2.75 meter shoulders, pedestrian walkways, landscaping and planting of ornament plants along […]
Akure — Ondo State Governor, Dr Olusegun Mimiko has said that the Federal Government was yet to refund to the state about N7billion expended on the repair and reconstruction of some federal roads in the state. Mimiko disclosed the figure while answering questions during an interactive programme. "The Governor Speaks" bothering on the deplorable state […]
The Enugu State House of Assembly has declared a state of emergency on federal roads in the Southeast. This followed a motion by Chinedu Nwamba (Nsukka East), condemning the deplorable state of the roads. Nwamba said: “Residents of Enugu and its environs, for over a decade now, are faced with myriads of problems because of […]
CONCERNED about the plight of commuters on the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, the Ogun State Government has embarked on palliative work on bad portions of the expressway. Speaking during an inspection tour of the ongoing palliative work being carried out by the Ogun State Ministry of Works on the federal road yesterday, Ogun State Governor, Senator Ibikunle […]