Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila, has stressed the need for the Nigerian government to put in place a legal framework for Privatisation and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs) to enable government collaboration with the private sector to meet Nigeria’s public infrastructure demands and also ensure that the country maximizes the value potential […]
The Senate on Tuesday appealed to the Federal Government to urgently approve a N300 billion Emergency Intervention Fund for rehabilitation of the collapsing critical roads in Niger State. The upper chamber of the National Assembly in its resolution during plenary pointed out that the intervention would support current government’s infrastructure rehabilitation efforts to support ease […]
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, on Monday said that the Federal Government would require a minimum of N500 billion yearly for the next three years to develop its 35,000 kilometres network of roads. The minister, who made the projection during an interactive chat with the Press Corps of the ruling All Progressives […]
The Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Mrs. Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, on Thursday described the huge sum of N3.3 trillion personnel cost provision in the 2020 Appropriation Bill as undesirable for nation’s development when compared to the N2.1 trillion voted for capital projects. Ahmed, who expressed this feeling during her defence of the ministry’s […]