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Work on the roundabout at Sango - Ota on the Ota - Abeokuta Federal Highway is to be completed in February 2010, a contractor handling the project, Julius Berger Nigeria Limited has assured. He gave the assurance at the site when the Minister of Works, Housing and Urban Development, Dr. Hassan Muhammad Lawal, paid an inspection visit.
The Department of Human Settlements has admitted to spending R22,6m last year on what Democratic Alliance spokesman Butch Steyn describes as a "scandalous Sarafina-style" theatre production.
THE massive repatriation of Sudanese refugees has left districts West Nile with unutilised land. The bushes have engulfed social facilities like schools and safe water sources, which local authorities have failed to put to proper use.
Rukirabasaija Oyo Nyimba Kabamba Iguru Rukidi IV Omukama of Toro has come of age. Born on April 16, 1992, he will be 18 years old in April 2010. That means he will take the reins of power in his personal capacity because he will no longer be a minor.
Buganda kingdom attorney general Apollo Makubuya has written to MPs urging them not to pass the Land Amendment Bill 2007.
The parliamentary Public Accounts Committee will today demand accountability from the Information Communication Technology (ICT) ministry officials on how they spent more than Shs4.8 billion during the 2007 Commonwealth summit.
With unpredictable diesel supplies and high prices playing a major role, telecommunication companies are now turning to investing in power lines to extend electricity to their rural base stations, which they see as a cheaper power source compared to generators.
Government has finalised negotiations with undersea fibre-optic cable operator SEACOM where the latter will deliver the Synchronous Transport Module (STM-1) in Rwanda on Saturday November, 2009.
Load-shedding has crippled Harare's water treatment plants at Morton Jaffray and Prince Edward, resulting in erratic water supplies in and around the capital despite a Government directive against switching off strategic national installations.
INFRASTRUCTURE development topped the Federal Government's agenda in Capital Expenditure of the N4.07 trillion budgetary proposal for 2010 laid separately before the Senate and the House of Representatives yesterday.
GAUTENG roads and transport MEC Bheki Nkosi yesterday moved to quash speculation that the government was considering making additional funding available to the Bombela Consortium to complete the airport link of the Gautrain in time for the Soccer World Cup.
The awareness of the proposed Land (Amendment) Bill 2007 by Ugandans has declined since last year by 11 percent, a new poll has revealed.
Records of most schools in Nigeria, either public or private, are kept manually, in paper form. With the passage of time, vital records and information are lost as the papers get defaced. This problem, coupled with the difficulty of wading through a mountain of paperwork often result in wrong performance analysis, inaccurate planning, and inefficient management of the schools.
ABOUT 266 projects worth over N10.257 billion executed by the Delta State Oil Producing Areas Development Commission (DESOPADEC) in different oil communities in Itsekiri, Ijaw, Isoko and Ndokwa ethnic nationalities in Delta State are to be commissioned between December 1 and 14.
Telecommunications operators are divided over new proposals meant to promote fair competition and guard against abuse of market power.
Most consumers will use their phone as a key financial tool, but they will not abandon financial institutions,
The Honourable Minister of State for Finance, Mr. Remi Babalola, on Thursday advised the three tiers of government to look inwards to generate sustainable resources to meet the minimum requirements and needs of their economies, particularly the infrastructural development.
Adamawa State Government has approved the sum of over N7 billion for the execution of various projects in the state.
The Provincial Department of Local Government and Housing on Tuesday announced that they were embarking on a R2.5 million exercise to update their housing demand database.
It takes sacrifice and real hard work to get where one desires to be in this world . There should be no quick fixes and quick returns; in essence we say forward ever backward never in our quest as a nation, to implement our sharp and innovative ideals towards industrialisation.
MTN's Average Revenue per User (ARPU) which describes how much money each subscriber spends on average on the network has declined, according to its latest figures.
In the latest twist to this saga, Chris Gabriel, the chief executive officer of Zain Africa, has said it is not for sale.
Essar had earlier paid US$ 3 million in licence fees to receive Uganda's sixth mobile licence
The National Association of Road Transport Owners (NARTO) and the Petroleum Tanker Drivers (PTDs) have lashed out at the Federal Government over the deplorable state of federal roads in the country, which, they noted, has greatly harmed their operation over the years.
THE information and communications technology ministry has laid over 2,118km of the fibre optic cable, a top official said last week. Dr. Jimmy Saamanya, the permanent secretary, told ICT stakeholders at the Sheraton Kampala Hotel that the ministry was embarking on phase two of the project that links upcountry towns.
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