Toll Gates: Okowa advises FG to employ companies with capacity
As Federal Government mulls the re-introduction of toll gates on highways, Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, says the projects should be given to credible companies.
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As Federal Government mulls the re-introduction of toll gates on highways, Delta Governor, Sen. (Dr) Ifeanyi Okowa, says the projects should be given to credible companies.
Read MoreMixed reactions continue to trail the reintroduction of toll gates on the highway as Federal Government proposed to return them 10 years after their removal.
Read MoreBy Gabriel Ewepu, Abuja Following moves by the Federal Government to reintroduce tollgates on federal highways, Civil Society Organisations, CSOs, Wednesday, kicked against the decision. Reacting to the planned return of tollgates, the Convener, Concerned Nigerians a CSO, Deji Adeyanju, described the plan as anti-people policy and said it would be resisted. Adeyanju said the
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THE Federal Government on Wednesday said that plans were at the advanced stage to return toll gate on the federal highways.
Read MoreMinister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Fashola, yesterday in Lagos, disclosed plans by the Federal Government to reactivate weighbridges across the country, as a result of dilapidated state of the roads caused mainly by heavy duty trucks.
Read MoreTHERE must be an outbreak of Keynesian economists in Nigeria. Suddenly, they are showing up on the idea of our tolling policy.
John Keynes (1883-1946) was a classical economist who had a soft spot for full employment. For him, the people must be employed, even where it meant getting them into what might ordinarily look like the absurd cycle of pit digging:
Read MoreA Potpourri of reactions has continued to trail the proposed re-introduction of toll gates on Federal highways across the country. While built environment experts welcomed the reintroduction because tolling is a universally accepted procurement standard for the maintenance of roads infrastructure, labour unions opposed the move because in the past, proceeds from toll collection were never effectively deployed for the maintenance of roads.
Read MoreMinister of Power, Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, disclosed yesterday, that the Federal Government will reintroduce toll gates where revenue generated can be channelled towards sustaining and maintaining quality federal roads. He promised that money generated from the toll gates will be properly accounted for and judiciously put to use.
Read MoreTHE Senate, yesterday, asked President Muhammadu Buhari to as a matter of urgency reintroduce toll gates on the nation’s highways to create a financial pool through which bad roads could be maintained and rehabilitated.
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