To avoid imminent total collapse of Federal highways in the country, the House of Representatives Sub-Committee on Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA, has asked the Federal Government to inject over N500billion as an intervention fund to rescue the sector from the current deteriorating status.

MOTORISTS who have gone through hell plying the Ikotun-Idimu road may soon heave a sigh of relief. This is because Messrs Plycon Nigeria Limited, the construction handling the project has pledged to complete work on the road in February 2011. Speaking at a town hall meeting in Idimu, the company said the project is progressing satisfactorily.

THE Infrastructure Concession Regulation Commission (ICRC), has blamed the Ministry of Works for not doing a thorough job before signing the concession agreement for the N89 billion reconstruction work on the Lagos_Ibadan expressway. The road project was concessioned to Messrs. Bi_Courtney Highway Services.

The Federal Ministry of Works has embarked on the installation of weigh bridges on highways across the country. Minister of Works, Senator Sanusi Daggash who disclosed this in his seasonal message to Nigerians, re-iterated the “need for all haulage operators to exercise restraint from over-loading their trucks and trailers as these inimical actions remain the major cause of rapid road failure”.

After 20 years of being managed by HFP Engineering, the Nigerian Institution of Surveyors (NIS) last week formally took over the seven-storey NIS Building beside Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) Building on Engineering Close, Victoria Island, Lagos. Messrs HFP Engineering Nigeria Limited are the developers of the building and had an agreement with the surveyors to manage it for that period to recoup the money spent on its construction.