Infrastructure
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The Administrator of Rivers State, Vice Admiral Ibok-Ete Ibas (retired) on Thursday said that an appropriation bill for 2025 is being articulated to provide for critical development concerns in healthcare delivery, education, agriculture and infrastructure. Ibas also said that the anticipated budget will cater to creating more employment opportunities for Rivers people and advance delivery…
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Sir Keir Starmer is vowing to take on “the NIMBYs” by reducing legal challenges to infrastructure building – with a new approach stopping “newts and bats” from blocking construction. The Labour government has made growth one of its primary targets, with a key plank of this strategy to build new infrastructure like roads and power…
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The Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Nyesom Wike, has lamented the state of works at the Abuja Rail Mass Transit Scheme, also known as the Abuja Light Rail Project. Wike, who was on tour of the station on Thursday, accompanied by senior officials of the FCTA, visited the Abuja Metro Station in the Central…
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Had US President Joe Biden not talked about bringing “high-speed rail to our nation” during his recent trip to Las Vegas, it would have continued to pass most people’s notice that the United States does not have a single high-speed railway line. When the US rose to the world stage in the late 19th and…
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The Federal Government has declared that the proposed Abuja-Lagos superhighway will be completed by 2027. Minister of Works Dave Umahi, while addressing newsmen in Lagos on Saturday, stated that the proposed 470-kilometre highway will last 100 years. He further disclosed that the road, which would be built by a private sector consortium at no cost…
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