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The Minister of Works DAVID UMAHI has threatened that contractors who are unserious about the Federal Government Road project they are handling will have their contractsterminated and awarded to other contractors. UMAHI who gave the warning during a stakeholder's engagement on the alignment of Sections 3B and 4 of the Lagos- Calabar Coastal Highway project, at the weekend in UYO,assured the people of President BOLA TINUBU’S commitment to the successful completion of the project. He said that out of the total span of 700Kilometers, 27 km of Section 3b and 80 km of Section 4, totaling 107 km, fall within Akwa Ibom […]

The Federal Executive Council presided over by President Bola Tinubu at the State House in Abuja, has approved an initiative to transformthe nation’s infrastructure and housing sector. The initiative, as approved by the council, is crafted to meet the urgent demand for critical infrastructure and affordable homeownership and is designed to foster job creation, inclusive growth, and long-term productivity enhancement. The initiative will unlock private-sector funds, which Nigerians can access for 25-year mortgages at low interest rates […]

The National Assembly Election Petition Tribunal sitting in Umuahia Abia State hassacked the member representing Arochukwu/Ohafia Federal Constituency Ibe Okwara of the Labor Party, declaring the All Progressives Congress’s Dan Okeke, the winner of February 25, 2023, National Assembly election in the constituency. An unsatisfied Okeke had approached the court to seek the nullification of Ibe’s election alleging that the LP candidate’s win did not comply with the provisions of […]

The Independent National Electoral Commissioner INEC has released the final list of candidates for the November 11 governorship election in Imo, Kogi, and Bayelsa States. The National Commissioner and Chairman of the Information and Voter Education Committee of INEC, Festus Okoye, said the approval of the list followed a meeting held by the Commission yesterday in Abuja. Okoye added that the list has been uploaded to the Commission’s website and […]

The Catholic Bishop of Nsukka Diocese, Most Rev. Godfrey Onah, the Anglican Archbishop of Enugu Ecclesiastical Province, Most Rev. Emmanuel Chukwuma, and the Enugu State Association of Presidents-General of Town Unions, have backed the efforts of the Government of Enugu State to end sit-at-home in the state starting from today saying it is long overdue.   They equally expressed total support for the governor, Peter Mbah’s call for the release […]

The Federal Government says it would consider the list of demands from the Trade Union Congress TUC which includes minimum wage and the practicability of the demands. Speaking to State House correspondents after a meeting yesterday between the Federal Government and the TUC which lasted for about three hours, the spokesperson for the Federal government, Dele Alake, said among things the government was considering is tax holidays for workers. Alake […]