The Provincial Chief of Councils for the Northwest, Henry Shey, has announced the construction of over seven town halls in some council areas in the Northwest.

The Chairman of BUA Group, Alhaji Abdulsamad Rabiu, yesterday said that his company is poised to drive down the rising price of cement in the country

Senator Ahmad Lawan from Yobe State yesterday asked the Federal Government to stop plans for the construction of what is proposed to be the nation's second biggest dam in Bauchi State saying the dam could cripple economic and agricultural activities in Yobe and Borno states.

Cameroon's Information and Communication Technology will in a few years ahead witness a significant transformation, following the signing yesterday of two new agreements between the government, represented by the Minister of State for Posts and Telecommunications, Maigari Bello Bouba and the Mobile Money Cameroon consortium in the present of the Canadian High Commissioner to Cameroon, Jean Pierre ...

An Olympic-size sports stadium is envisaged for the town of Omaruru. Planning of the project is at an advanced stage, and the Omaruru Town Council has already allocated a 4-hectare piece of land for the project.

THE Rainbow Tourism Group has expressed confidence it will complete its joint-venture three-star hotel in Beitbridge in time for the 2010 Soccer World Cup.

Ugbomro Community in Uvwie Local Govern-ment Area of Delta State has protested to the Delta State government over the abandonment and flooding of the community road, calling on the government to effect the construction of the long neglected Ugbomro road that has made life unbearable for the people of the community with immediate effect.

Consequent upon the peaceful resolutions of the lingering land disputes between Mbiakong and Ifiayong Usuk communities, the Akwa Ibom State Governor, Chief Godswill Akpabio has promised to reconsider his earlier decision not to re-build the Holy Trinity College, Mbiakong in Uruan Local Government Area, which was razed down following a boundary clash between two warring communities.

THE Adamawa state government has approved the sum of N3.5 billion for the reconstruction of the Shagari Housing Estate and Betty bridge roads in Yola South Local Government of the state.

NO fewer than five persons were feared dead and several others injured yesterday when a two-storey building collapsed in Asero area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State capital. The incident which occurred at about noon left three siblings, including a set of twins, who were bricklayers working at a petrol station which was under construction injured.

The Arusha International Conference Center is bracing toward establishing Tanzania's first state-of-the-art convention center in order to reinforce the country's position as a congress tourism destination.

Bauchi State Government has said the proposed construction of Kafin-Zaki Dam will not reduce the volume of water supply to the Kamadugu-Yobe River Basin by 75 per cent or affect the power supply to Niger Republic.

The Federal Government through its Ministry of Commerce and Industry, has cleared the air on government's recent decision to approve the importation of bagged cement in a statement signed by Assistant Director Press, Udo Akpan, and made available to LEADERSHIP, it said:

Life at selected remote locations at the shores of Lake Victoria might change for the better following the construction of several modern fish landing sites.

The River Benue bridge in Makurdi which links the northern and the southern parts of the country from the middle belt region is no longer safe for road users, especially at night as it has claimed numerous lives in recent times.

The Angolan Culture minister, Boaventura Cardoso, on Saturday in Bailundo Municipality, central Huambo Province, laid the first stone for the construction of a monument in tribute of King Ekuikui II, as part of the national programme of valorising the country's historical personalities.

At least fifty two first cycle schools, with six rooms each, will start working in 2009 in Matala district, southern Huila province, to cater for 7,766 children.

Hage Geingob, Minister of Trade and Industry, Haddis Tilahun, the United Africa Group's Executive Director, and his wife Martha Namujembo-Tilahun toasting during a ceremony to announced a loan provision of US$10 million from the IFC, a member of the World Bank. The loan will cover part of the costs of constructing a five star hotel in Windhoek. The hotel is expected to revitalize the city's ...

THE Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) has called on construction giant, Julius Berger to return to its abandoned projects in the Niger Delta.

NEW Forest Company (NFC) has donated two classroom blocks worth sh27m to Nsava Primary School in Bugiri.

A Lagos High Court has restrained a business woman, Mrs. Irene Sumbo Kuti Cole and her agents from any development and further construction of a ground floor and one boy's quarter of property situated at 38 Raymond Njoku Road Ikoyi belonging to a 77years old woman, Mrs. Rosaline Ebunola Aiyegbusi.

WORK on the Masaka-Mbarara highway has been interrupted after 35 employees of Reynolds Construction Company on Wednesday morning went on strike over underpayment.

The Ministry of Infrastructure has liaised with the British Standards Institution (BSI) to help them in developing proper construction standards and codes to guide the construction practice in Rwanda.

It has now become common to see security men, particularly the police supervising the demolition of illegal or unauthorised structures in the country. These demolitions are usually carried out as a result of court orders when the owners of such structures are found to have illegally acquired the land, therefore the police cannot be blamed for carrying out their constitutional duties.

WHILE many sectors of the economy are choking in a high inflation environment, construction companies are powering ahead, underpinned by the government's multibillion-rand infrastructure expansion programme.