Flood: Respite as NDDC commences repairs on East-West Road
By Egufe Yafugborhi PORT HARCOURT – NIGER Delta Development Commission, NDDC, has commenced repairs to restore vehicular movement on sections cut off by the flood on the stretch from Rivers, through Bayelsa to Delta states on the East-West Road. Inspecting the restoration works at the failed stretch at Ihuike, Ahoada East Local Government Area, Rivers State, […]
Commuters stranded as ex militants barricade East-West road
TRAVELLERS plying the East-West road straddling the states of the Niger Delta were Monday stranded for about three hours as some ex agitators barricaded the Mbiama section of the road connecting Bayelsa State in protest against alleged non payment of allowances and exclusion from the Federal Government Amnesty programme.
East-West Road: Sand not priced in dollars
Again the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, recently made a statement suggesting that the price of sand in the original bills of quantities for the East–West Road contracts were priced in dollars. This is patently false once again. The correct situation is as follows:
Niger/D youths tackle Minister over completion of East-West Road
NIGER Delta youths under the auspices of Niger Delta Youth Congress, NDYC, have tackled the Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Usani Uguru Usani, over the completion of the East-West Road.
No completion date for East-West road — N-Delta Minister
ABUJA—Eleven years after it was awarded, the Federal Government, said, yesterday, that there is no definite deadline for the completion of the East-West Road dualization project.
East-West Road designed to fail — FG
ABUJA—THE Federal Government, yesterday, said that the East-West Road which was conceived by the administration of President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2006 at the cost of N211 billion, was billed to fail from its conception.
