Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, has blamed some communities for uncompleted projects, disclosing how a demand of N10 billion compensation was made for work to continue on the 2nd Niger bridge.Speaking with reporters at the end of the federal executive council (FEC) meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, the minister said huge demands have led to uncompleted [...]
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The federal executive council (FEC) has approved contracts worth N166 billion for the construction and rehabilitation of 14 roads across the country.According to the PUNCH, the approval was granted after a memorandum was submitted by Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing.One of the roads in the memorandum is Kotangora-Rijau road in Niger state, where there will be a construction [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says there was no inflation in the contracts awarded by his ministry in 2018.The Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) said it saved N26 billion for the federal government in 2018 by revising the sums of government contracts approved by some ministries, departments and agencies.The agency said the highest reduction was made from the ministry [...]
As the country continues to battle with the $9.6 billion award in favour of P&ID, another possible $2.3 billion fine in arbitration is hanging over the country in France as a result of controversies surrounding the Mambilla power project in Taraba state. In August, a British commercial court had granted P&ID powers to seize Nigerian assets worth $9.6 billion over a failed [...]
Bola Tinubu, national leader of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, attended the retreat for cabinet members of Babajide Sanwo-Olu, governor of Lagos state, on Friday.The duo, who are former governors of the state, delivered speeches at the programme.In his remarks, Tinubu said the incumbent governor needs to work hard to achieve the agenda [...]
Some ministers visited their respective offices shortly after their portfolios were assigned to them on Wednesday.Among these minsters are Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing; Rauf Aregbesola, minister of interior and Olamilekun Adegbite, minister of mines and steel development.Others include Sharon Ikeazor, minister of environment; Godswill Akpabio, minister of Niger Delta and Muhammad Bello minister of federal capital territory (FCT). They [...]
Babatunde Fashola will no longer be the minister of power.Fashola, who is the former governor of Lagos state, was previously the minister of power, works and housing.Announcing the ministerial portfolio on Wednesday at the swearing-in ceremony for ministers-designate, President Muhammadu Buhari announced that Saleh Mamman will now be the minister of power.Babatunde Fashola was announced as the minister of works [...]
Rochas Okorocha, senator representing Imo west, says Babatunde Fashola started having grey hairs when he began to handle three large ministries.Fashola, the immediate past minister of power, works and housing, was among the returning ministers nominated by President Muhammadu Buhari for his second tenure.Speaking on Monday during the screening of ministerial nominees at the senate, Okorocha said the three ministries [...]
A federal high court in Lagos has asked the federal government to publish the details of contractors who failed to execute power projects after receiving payment.Kolawole Oluwadare, deputy director of Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP), said Chuka Obiozor, a judge at the court, made the order on FridayHe said the judge ordered the full details of the contractors who [...]
Maikudi Haruna, a senior official of the ministry of power, works and housing, has been arrested for allegedly forging the signature of a former minister.In a statement by Sunday James, spokesperson of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Haruna was accused of forging the signature of the minister in charge of his ministry to help one Abubakar Mustapha, his client, obtain [...]
Babatunde Fashola, former minister of power, works and housing, has commended President Muhammadu Buhari's administration for the "strides recorded so far".According to Channels Television the former minister described the achievement of this government as one of a kind, saying perhaps only a few or no other government has recorded such feat.Fashola was quoted as saying instead of engaging in one activity [...]
The federal government has presented documents of the apartment promised to Clemens Westerhof, former Super Eagles’ chief coach, 25 years after he led his team to continental glory.Babatunde Fashola, the minister of power, works and housing, who made the presentation on behalf of government, said it was regrettable that a promise took so long to redeem.“It is unfortunate that this [...]
President Emmerson Mnangagwa of Zimbabwe has fired Joram Gumbo (pictured), his minister of energy and power development, over "poor electricity supply" across the country.According to BBC, Zimbabwe is experiencing the worst electricity blackouts since 2016.This is coming after the minister had licenced over 30 companies to provide solar power to the country and concluded plans to travel to Mozambique, a [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has the power to revoke licences of non-performing electricity distribution companies (DisCos).Speaking on Thursday at the 2019 Punuka annual lecture in Abuja, Fashola maintained that the regulatory body, not the minister, could either cancel or amend the licences of the DisCos upon consumers complaints.The minister [...]
The national power grid has collapsed twice within the last 24 hours causing blackouts in most states across the country.A daily report from the Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN) confirmed a system collapse on Wednesday which reduced load allocations to the distribution companies.The collapse came after the grid recorded 4,212 megawatts on Wednesday morning.Bode Fadipe, spokesperson of the Abuja Electricity [...]
Logistics challenges which electricity distribution companies (DisCos) are battling with have affected the commencement of the new meter roll-out under the meter asset providers (MAPs) regulation.The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) had issued permits to approved meter service providers to roll out of new meters by May 1.On March 8, 2018, NERC introduced the MAP regulation to new investors in [...]
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