WORKS & HOUSING: Top issues for Fashola, by stakeholders
Built environment professionals have asked the new Minister of Works & Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, who served as Minister of Power, Works and Housing in the first tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari administration, to be more focused to ensure the delivery of uncompleted works and housing projects he started across the country when he was Minister, Power, Works and Housing now that his workload has been reduced. The President, Nigerian Institute of Building NIOB, Mr Kunle Awobodu, who lauded the reduction in Fashola's workload to Works and Housing, said Fashola couldn't really perform to Nigerians' satisfaction as Minister of Power, Works and Housing because he was saddled with so many responsibilities handling three-in-one ministry.
Trouble at C/River, Abia Boundary: 3,500 risk starvation as war over limestone deposits rages
Okoro called on the Federal Government to return a police post, which was formerly sited at Iheosu village, stressing that there was relative peace in the area when the police were there
Would you steal from your husband?
Ego walked into her matrimonial home and stood gob-smacked as she watched her husband, Kayode, knee-deep in plastic packaging and out emerged a spanking new car stereo. He’d just bought himself a tokunbo car they could ill-afford. “What do you think?”, he beamed with pride, ignoring the scowl on his wife’s face.
Enugu Airport: Fasten your seat belt for bumpy landing!
No one made a fuss over this delay until the pilot apologised and implied that departure was delayed because the runway was being cleared of pebbles that could damage the plane and endanger the lives of passengers
Oil discovered in Lagos water wells
By August 2018, residents were scooping fuel from gutters and when hot coals from a roadside food vendor fell into the gutter at Abdullahi Street, combustion followed
‘If…’
If taking five months to do what other nations require only maximum of four days to finish is regarded as wisdom here, then the two branches of government will have to explain to us and the whole world why none of the 10,000 Health Centres promised to Nigerians had been built despite the fact that a Minister of Health was appointed so late in 2015
