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Buhari Okays N24b For Funding Of Modular Irrigation Project

Buhari Okays ₦24b For Funding Of Modular Irrigation Project

August 6, 2022 3:58 am

The President of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari has approved the total sum of ₦24 billion for the National Agency for Science and Engineering Infrastructure (NASENI) for the execution of a smart modular irrigation project.

The Executive Vice Chairman of NASENI, Professor Mohammed Sani Haruna made this disclosure on Friday after a private meeting with the President at the State House in Abuja.

The NASENI boss told State House correspondents that he was in the Villa to brief the President on the activities of the agency as well as present the agency’s financial report as requested by Buhari.

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Why My Successor Cannot Afford To Fail In Office — Wike

Why My Successor Cannot Afford To Fail In Office — Wike

July 19, 2022 3:33 am

The Governor of Rivers State, Chief Nyesom Wike, has asserted his administration has set a very high standard that his successor cannot afford to bring down by any means, noting that he has used the last seven months to deliver good governance to the good people of Rivers State. 

Speaking on Monday, Wike also pointed out that the state government has concluded plans to award a contract for construction of two additional flyovers to reduce traffic congestion in Port Harcourt and its environs.

Wike pointed out that the two flyovers which he plans to build will be the eleventh …

Compromise Detected In Lagos-Ibadan Rail Project

December 21, 2019 9:56 am

Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, on Friday ordered stoppage of work at Omi-Adio Railway Station under construction on Lagos-Ibadan standard gauge rail line over compromise of standards by the contractor.

Amaechi gave the directive when he observed the non-usage of stone for flooring at the station during his monthly inspection tour of the project, NAN reports.

“One of the benefits of this inspection is what is happening here now. Now, the contractor has been seeing to be doing very poor quality job in this station. We say stop and they have to start afresh.

“The implication is that if …

ICPC Quizzes NDDC Officials Over Alleged Corruption

Imo Senator Converted Project To Private Hotel -ICPC

December 10, 2019 1:22 pm

The Independent Corrupt Practices and other Offences Commission (ICPC) has accused an unnamed senator representing Imo State of diverting a constituency project to his personal hotel.

The ICPC Commissioner in the state, Udonsi Arua, made the allegation during the celebration of the 2019 United Nations International Anti-Corruption Day in Owerri, the state capital.

He further alleged that another federal lawmaker, who procured tricycles and buses for constituency project, also packed them in his residence without giving them to his constituents.

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Justice Ministry Has No Allocation for Constituency Project

December 5, 2019 7:14 am

The Federal Ministry of Justice wednesday stated that it has zero allocation for alleged constituency or zonal intervention projects in the 2019 approved budget.

The Permanent Secretary of the Ministry and Solicitor General of the Federation (SGF), Dayo Apata SAN, made the clarification in a statement issued to newsmen by Dr. Umar Gwandu, media aide to the Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, SAN. The SGF maintained that the clarification, which was contained in a letter dated December 3, 2019, and addressed to the Chairman, Independent Corrupt Practices and other related Offences Commission (ICPC), was necessary …

Sokoto, Morocco Set For Pioneering Phosphate Project

December 3, 2019 12:10 pm

Nseobong Okon-Ekong writes that the Sokoto State government has entered a business undertaking with Morocco that promises to enhance improved agricultural yield for farmers, and ultimately, increase the state’s Internally Generated Revenue

Governor Aminu Waziri Tambuwal’s recent visit to Morocco marked the conclusive stage of a cooperation agreement with OCP Morocco, a state-owned company and a world leader in phosphate and its derivatives, for the establishment of a phosphate blending plant in Sokoto state.

The state government, working in conjunction with the Solid Minerals Development Fund (SMDF) had earlier keyed into the initiative to tap into its massive phosphate reserves, …

Anxiety Over ₦300bn Presidential Deal On e-Customs Project

December 2, 2019 6:37 am

The reported move by the presidency to concession the Nigeria Customs Service revenue collection to the private sector for 20 years, has unruffled some feathers in the Nigeria  Customs high command and they are now mobilising to challenge the initiative. The service believes the concession plan will hamper the development the country has recorded so far in the area of export and import trade.

A document sighted and obtained by our reporter titled, Re: Presidential Initiatives  on Customs  Modernisation: “E-Customs  Project”(Establishment  of  a Digital /Paperless  Customs  Administration) and other Matters,  indicated that the Presidency has approved the  engagement  of  a …

Buhari Approves Salt Development Project In Ebonyi

November 30, 2019 7:01 am

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the development of salt deposits in Ebonyi State.

The project was part of efforts to ensure that Nigeria starts the production of salt in commercial quantities.

The Minister of State for Mines and Steel Development, Dr. Uchechukwu Ogah disclosed this during courtesy call on Governor David Umahi and inspection of some salt lakes in the state.

He noted that the federal government had brought consultants to look at how they could develop the salt project which is the first in the history of the country, coming to the South-east and being driven by the Ebonyi …

Lagos

Drone Project Aims To Put Floating Lagos Slum On Map

November 29, 2019 4:40 pm

John Eromosele records the coordinates of a bustling canal on his smartphone from aboard a dug-out canoe navigating the floating slum of Makoko in Nigerian megacity Lagos.

The waterway is “like a boulevard, there’s always traffic here,” the computer coding specialist laughed as other boats jostled for space between rows of wooden houses on stilts.

Officially Makoko does not exist.

Its estimated 300,000 inhabitants — no one knows for sure how many — and their ramshackle homes do not appear on any city development plans or maps.

A South Africa-based NGO, Code for Africa, wants to change that.

It wants

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Probe Storm Water Project, Group Dares Obaseki

November 19, 2019 3:08 pm

A group, Edo Transparency Initiative (ETI), yesterday, dared Governor Godwin Obaseki to carry out his threat to probe the multi-billion naira Benin storm water project, commenced by the administration of former governor Adams Oshiomhole.

The group, in statement by its coordinator, Felix Osahon, urged the governor to institute the probe and make its findings public so that Edo people would know the truth of the matter.

Minister of State for Budget and National Planning and former commissioner for Environment and Public Utilities in the state, Clem Agba, had during his courtesy call on the Oba of Benin, Ewuare II, …

Controversy Trails $1bn Ogoni Cleanup Project

November 14, 2019 1:02 pm

A leading international advocacy organisation on environment, Environmental Rights Action (Friends of the Earth), has faulted the ongoing $1 billion Ogoni cleanup exercise in the Niger Delta. It said the lack on seriousness on the part of the government is a major threat to its completion.

Executive director of the organisation, Godwin Uyi Ojo, while briefing newsmen on Thursday in Abuja, said the agency of government handling the project, Hydrocarbon Pollution Remediation Project (HYPREP), is yet to define clear parameters on how it intends to execute the project, despite the availability of over $100 million at its disposal.

Mr. Ojo

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NIWA To Scale-Up Oguta River Port Project

November 11, 2019 2:03 pm

National Inland Waterways Authority (NIWA) has decried the level of abandonment of the Oguta river port in Osemoto, Oguta Local Government Area of Imo State.

Managing Director of NIWA, George Muoghalu who expressed his disappointment while on an inspection tour of the project noted that the Federal Government had spent huge sums of money on the project only for it to be abandoned.

He also expressed anger on the level of vandalisation of the project awarded in 2009 by late President Umar Yar’adua.

He attributed the activities of the vandals to the insecurity nature of the premises of the port …

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