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Members of the Orlu Market Amalgamated Traders Association (OMATA) at the Imo International Market, Umuna in Orlu Local Government Area of Imo State have once again raised alarm on the non-completion of construction activities and provision of infrastructure at the complex even three years after the take of commercial activities.
The United States government, through the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), officially handed over the rehabilitated Harper City Hall/ Maryland County Administration Building to the government of Liberia, after completing five months of rehabilitation work. USAID provided a $450,000 grant to the Ministry of Internal Affairs to rehabilitate the building under its Liberia Community ...
The East African Community now expects to move into own premises in 2012, the year that construction work of its Arusha based headquarters are scheduled for completion.
As part of efforts to realise the resolve of Anambra citizens to enjoy air transport services within and outside Nigeria, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) panel review for the construction of Anambra International Cargo Airport has ended its sitting in Awka.
Barely two weeks after a N100 million worth of property belonging to a renowned auto dealer, Mr. Arthur Orakpo, was demolished by officials of the Enugu State government for allegedly encroaching on the water buffer zone of the Asaba River bank, a human right activist in the state, Dr John Agu, has taken a swipe at the state government's action, describing it as illegal and flagrant disregard of ...
In a move aimed at reducing frequent overseas travelling of people with various kinds of ailments in Nigeria, Kwara State government has commenced the construction of a N2.2 billion ultra-modern Diagnostic Centre in Ilorin.
With a whopping credit facility of $200 million (N25.2 billion), World Bank Assisted Improvement projects in Lagos State have not lived up to expectations, THISDAY has learnt.
Vincent De Vischer commissioning the construction of Palero sub-county office block
CCECC, the Chinese construction firm handling the provision of roads in Lafia, the Nasarawa State capital, and its sub-contractors, are yet to return to site, more than two weeks after the end of October which the government promised as deadline for work to pick up.
Nigerian engineers have been urged to live up to expectation to enhance technological development and stem the tide of rampant building collapse in the country.
An expert in the building industry has identified the need for adequate training for artisans in the industry as a means of curtailing the incidence of building collapse in the country.
Contractors handling various roads and building projects for Imo State Government, have been ordered to go back to site and complete their assignments.
Commercial and business outfits around the Area 10 shopping complex in Abuja have expressed dismay over the non-completion of the proposed multi-level car park project initiated by the FCT Administration, which according to them, is causing them severe hardship.
Lamentations of motorists along the Lagos/ Aabeokuta Expressway due to traffic gridlock may soon be over following recent pledge by the construction giant, Julius Berger Construction company that the construction of Sango Otta bridge would be completed come February 2010.
Two major contractors handling the N30 million Naira renovations work at the Police Children's School at the Police Barracks, Otop Abasi in Cross River State, have been accused of using inferior materials for the job.
The Principal District Officer (development) Gobe Macha has said that a plot has been secured for the construction of a community junior secondary school at the Gerald Estates location.
The sum of N186million was spent in the renovation and provision of classroom furniture for Government Science Secondary School, Gombe by its Old Boys Association.
BUILDWORKS, a supplier of heavy building materials to the construction industry, said yesterday its strategic positioning in the provision of infrastructure to the African power market provided it with a "fairly" robust buffer against the volatility of the market place.
THE Johannesburg Roads Agency yesterday said budget cuts had forced it to scale back some road projects and "reprioritise" others in the country's richest city, which is battling with backlogs on capital projects and maintenance.
The government has put forward a Building Control Bill to regulate players in the construction industry and guarantee planned and secure building structures in the country.
The government will acquire a $150million (about Shs300bn) loan from the World Bank for the enhancement of education programmes and facilitation of teachers' welfare, Daily Monitor has learnt.
We could recall that on his entry to the reception hall of the then Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, now known as the Transcorp Hilton, the revolutionary Burkina Faso leader, Late Captain Thomas Sankara, made the exclamation "Who said Nigeria is not rich?" This was in the mid eighties.
The Abia State government has said that it is constructing a ring road that will service the Aba industrial in the state, governor Theodore Orji has said.
The much talked about 240 units Lugbe housing estate extension located in Lugbe area of the FCT was formally commissioned yesterday by the Minister of State for Works, Housing and Urban Development Mrs. Grace Ekpiwhre.
Reconstruction and rehabilitation of Kano-Daura-Katsina road and the expansion of three killer bridges along Katsina-Daura is to cost the federal government a total of two point three billion naira (N2.32bn), minister of works Dr Hassan Lawal disclosed.
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