Browsing: Bi-Courtney

Rather than manifesting, exhibiting and walking on the road of this Tortoise-wisdom-of-the-world, FG should let Nigerians know how much has been expended thus far, since 2013, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and how much is still needed. This nebulous voting of looted funds into the road construction, which leaves the actual figures spent shrouded in mystery and the fact that the true spending so far on the expressway exists solely in the mind of government, bears acute resemblance to Tortoise’s wily attempt to make the wisdom of the world resident solely in his head

Speaking at the Infrastructure Policy Commission of the Nigeria Economic Summit Group, moderated by the Managing Director of the United Bank for Africa Plc, Philips Oduoza, on Wednesday in Abuja, Dr. Wale Babalakin, the Chief Executive Officer of Bi-Courtney, the company that won the concessional rights to the Federal Secretariat project conversion, lamented what he called the “colossal losses suffered” by his company because of government’s tardiness

Paragraphs three and four of the order say: “An order directing the Defendant/Respondent (Attorney General of the Federation), being the Chief Law Officer and legal representative of the Federal Government of Nigeria and all its agents/agencies, including the government institutions and bodies responsible for the payment of the sum due to the Applicant, to mandatorily compel the said government institutions and bodies to immediately comply with the judgment of this Honourable Court by making without any further delay the payment of N132,540,580,304.00 to the Plaintiff/Applicant (Bi-Courtney) in fulfilment of the aforesaid order of this Honourable Court