Airtel backs up NCC position on drop calls, links 405 fibre cuts to road works
More industry leaders have joined the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) in advancing the fact that fibre cuts arising from road construction activities nationwide remain one of the major causative factors in not only drop calls, but other manifestations of poor…
Outrage trails FG’s award of N29.2bn roads to Niger Republic borders
Barely 24 hours after the Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided by President Muhammadu Buhari Wednesday announced the award of two roads contracts linking Nigeria’s borders with the Republic of Niger, totalling N29.2bn, many Nigerians have started asking questions if all…
(Special Report) No doubt, second Niger Bridge is taking convincing shape
Beyond politics, latest tour of the construction site of second Niger Bridge at Onitsha, the commercial nerve centre of Anambra State has shown strong conviction that the current administration is ready to deliver the infrastructure on record time after all….
How Fashola left without setting template for 10,000MW transmission capacity
At the onset of the just ended first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari in 2015, the administration came with humongous assurance that it is setting up a template that will between 2016 and 2019, deliver template that will add 10,000MW…
Century Power boss, Umeh opens up on why steady electricity remained elusive
Remembering the quote of Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, during the 2015 presidential campaign that every serious government must fix electricity within the first six months of its administration, the government he is serving on the…
Why Fashola, Discos oppose bill criminalising estimated billing
Contrary to the general views of Nigerian electricity consumers that power distribution companies (Discos) are deliberately avoiding metering every consumer to continue to rake in money from electricity not consumed, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola,…
Stock Exchange laced with strong force capable of retaining foreign investors’—FG
The federal government has revealed that the Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE) has all it needs to continue to retain both local and foreign portfolio investors even in the face of nearing general elections next year. In his presentation during the…
Fashola opens up, says metering, governance issues frustrating privatization
While maintaining sealed lips on possibilities of revoking the privatization exercise by the present administration, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has again, acknowledged that there were challenges that came with the privatisation of the industry…
Nobody’ll query return of toll gates on federal roads if they are in shape—Nigerians
Barely one month ago, the Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola dropped a shocker for Nigerians, saying federal government has concluded plans to reintroduce payment of toll gates across 38 federal highways in the country. Though the…
Expect toll gates on all new roads FG is reconstructing—-Fashola
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola has opened up on the plot of the federal government on current road construction activities across the country, saying Nigerian should be ready to pay tolls on newly reconstructed roads…
