Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says some countries asked Nigeria to supply them food during the COVID-19 lockdown measures. Speaking during an Instagram live chat with City People Magazine on Saturday, Fashola said President Muhammadu Buhari told the countries to wait because Nigerians must be well-fed first. He said the countries, which he did not mention, made the requests because [...]
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Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says Nigeria has berries and "ogogoro" which can be used to produce hand sanitisers. Ogogoro is a locally-distilled alcohol made from palm-tree products. Speaking on Wednesday in Abuja at a forum organised by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Fashola said the hand sanitiser he used while entering the event was imported from China. The minister [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of works and housing, says his ministry is working towards ensuring the smooth movement of fuel across the country during the festive period. The minister said this in Abuja on Monday during a stakeholders' meeting chaired by Abba Kyari, chief of staff to the president. He said the ministry has instructed contractors to make alternative routes for easy movement [...]
The Nigerian Electricity Regulatory Commission (NERC) has warned the Association Of Nigerian Electricity Distributors (ANED) to steer clear of policy directives in the power sector. The commission made the directive during a meeting with representatives of electricity distribution companies (DisCos) in Abuja. ANED is the umbrella body of the DisCos. At the meeting, ANED representatives were warned against commenting on any pronouncement made by [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the N701bn payment assurance guarantee fund for electricity generation companies (GenCos) has raised power generation capacity to 7,000 megawatts (MW). The minister disclosed this on Monday at the 29th monthly power sector meeting hosted by Mainstream Energy Solutions Limited (MESL) in Minna, Niger state. Fashola said the payment which started in 2017 had [...]
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, former minister of finance, says it is untrue that she mocked Rotimi Amaechi, minister of transportation, and Babatunde Fashola, his power, works and housing counterpart. Okonjo-Iweala was alleged to have referred to Amaechi and Fashola as “scavengers turned saints”. She was said to have made the statement in ‘Fighting Corruption is Dangerous’, her recently-released book on her role in the Goodluck [...]
After Donald Trump became the president of the world's most powerful nation in January 2017, he gave executive orders to deny entry for citizens and visitors from some Islamic nations. This executive order also saw to the deportation of many Mexicans who came into the US questionably -- with no form fair hearing. For Nigeria, the news space was filled with [...]
Ayodele Fayose, governor of Ekiti state, has promised to tone down his criticism of President Muhammadu Buhari "due to the intervention" of Babatunde Fashola. Fashola, who is the minister of power, works and housing, visited Ekiti on Thursday to inspect some projects. Promising to exercise patience with Buhari's government, Fayose said he does not expect all developmental projects in Ekiti to be fixed [...]
Babatunde Fashola, the minister of power, works and housing, has called on governors of south-south states to "step up" and collaborate with the federal government to develop the region. The minister made the call during a visit to Yenegoa, the Bayelsa state capital, on Saturday. He promised that conscious efforts would be made to change the story of the Niger Delta region. Fashola, [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the decision of the federal executive council to favour Kaduna airport over Minna airport is due to the ease or otherwise of connecting roads. Fashola explained that given the current conditions of both roads, the Kaduna-Abuja highway currently lends itself more to the kind of emergency intervention to restore it to motorability [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, says the past government led by Goodluck Jonathan cannot say it is responsible for Nigeria's growth over the past decade. Fashola said the growth over the past decade was driven by high oil prices, not any economic policy implemented by the Jonathan administration. The former governor said even Donald Trump who just won the [...]
The Council for the Regulation of Engineering in Nigeria (COREN), on Monday disclosed that Nigeria requires about N3 trillion to address the massive road infrastructure deficit in the country. Kasim Ali, COREN president, stated this in Abuja at the public hearing organized by the house of representatives committee on works. The hearing was on the repeal of the federal roads maintenance agency [...]
Akinwumi Adesina, president of the African Development Bank; Akinwunmi Ambode, Lagos state governor and his counterpart from Kaduna, Nasir el-Rufai, are to speak at the fifth EU-Nigeria business forum. The forum, which is set for November 10 to November 11, also features Okechukwu Enelamah, minister of industry, trade and investment; Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works, and housing; Udoma Udo Udoma, minister of [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, has blamed Nigerian engineers for creating the vacuum that makes the federal government patronise foreign contractors. Fashola said this when a delegation of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) led by its president, Otis Anyaeji, paid him a courtesy visit. He said the failure of Nigerian engineering firms to bid for government projects was responsible for the patronage of foreign contractors. “If [...]
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved fresh N700 million for the completion of the ongoing construction of federal secretariats in six states. Since 2012, he construction of the federal secretariats in Anambra, Bayelsa, Zamfara, Nassarawa, Gombe and Osun had been stalled. Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, who spoke to the press alongside Lai Mohammed, minister of information and [...]
Ijora-Apapa bridge has been shut down indefinitely to allow for detailed work on a part that is collapsing and to "save lives". Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, said this on Sunday at a consultative meeting at Apapa Area "B" police command. He said since repair of the bridge was not captured in the 2016 budget, most of the work [...]
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