It gave the commendation in a statement on Tuesday following the payment of pension and infrastructure provision.
Browsing: road projects
The Federal Government says only competent contractors will henceforth be engaged in handling road projects across the country to reduce the incidence of delay in completion.
The House of Representatives ad hoc committee investigating alleged slow pace of Ijebu-Igbo-Ibadan Road project and inflation of the contract sum from N9.8 billion to N54 billion, has visited the project site.
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has charged contractors handling federal road projects in the state to ensure they deliver quality jobs.
The President spoke in Azare, Bauchi State during the commissioning and handing over of the 106.341 Kilometers Kano-Maiduguri Road, Section III (Azare-Potiskum) in Bauchi and Yobe states.
Kabir said, during the inspection tour of roads in Lagos on Sunday as part of oversight of projects in the South West, the state deserved more roads because of its importance to the economy of Nigeria and West Africa.
The President spoke on Tuesday at the virtual inauguration of two roads in Owerri, the Imo State capital, completed within the first year in office of Governor Uzodinma.
Ndume, who is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Army, made this known in Maiduguri on Monday while speaking with newsmen.
Minister of the FCT, Mohammed Bello, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the last Council meeting for the year 2020 at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The size and magnitude of the road projects notwithstanding, the clamour by Nigerians for more motorable roads is not abating, and neither is the President Muhammadu Buhari Government’s commitment to delivering on an improved national road network, which it inherited at different stages of disrepair from previous administrations. When there is a will, as the adage goes, there will be a way or two.
The request by Buhari was contained in his letter to the President of the Senate, Ahmad Lawan, and read during plenary after the upper chamber’s resumption from its over two months vacation.
The Federal Government had awarded more than 70 road projects from 2017 to date in the North Central region as part of measures to improve infrastructural development in the country.
The Oyo State Governor, Engr. Seyi Makinde, has declared that his government would not demolish any property to facilitate road construction without adequately engaging with the owners and paying due compensations.
The Federal Government says it will complete 47 ongoing road projects, including those leading to the nation ports, and major bridges including substantial work on the Second Niger Bridge in 2020.
The Lagos State House of Assembly on Monday adopted a motion calling on Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu to direct the Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure to ensure quality supervision of road projects in the state.
Funsho Adebiyi, Director, Highways, Southwest, Federal Ministry of Works, Power and Housing, said this on Saturday in Ibadan while addressing newsmen after an inspection tour of Federal roads across the Southwest states.
The Federal Road Maintenance Agency on Thursday said over 88 capital road projects that were captured in 2017 budget nationwide had been completed.
According to the State Governor, Dr. Abdulfatah Ahmed, while inspecting ongoing projects in Ilorin, the state capital, on Thursday, the projects would be commissioned in the next few weeks.
Augoye made this known during the annual ministerial briefing organised by the state Ministry of Information in Asaba.
Ade Akinsanya, the state Commissioner for Works and Infrastructure, made this known at the Government House, Alausa, at the 2018 Ministerial Press Briefing to mark three years in office of Governor Akinwunmi Ambode.