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FG Releases N17 Billion For Completion Of Abuja-Kaduna-Kano Highway

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Bola Tinubu-led government has approved the release of the sum of N17 billion for the completion of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway project. The government announced its expectation that all sections of the highway be finished within a span of 24 months. EDITOR’S PICKS Bye-Election: Ani Emerges APC Candidate To Fill Umahi’s Senate Seat Bayelsa Government Investigates ‘Marriage’ Between 4-Year-Old And 54-Year-Old Man Gunmen Abduct Ex-Imo Traditional Council Chair The Minister of Works, David Umahi, revealed this information while inspecting the Abuja-Kaduna section of the highway. Accompanied by the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Economy, Wale Edun, Umahi stated that the government arrived at this new timeline after reaching an agreement with the contractor, Julius Berger Construction Company. It is worth noting that the minister had previously pledged to complete the road this year, but now the focus is on ensuring its completion within the next two years. In October 2022, the former Minister of State, Works and Housing, Umar El-Yakub, had also mentioned that the Kaduna-Abuja highway and Zaria-Kano road would be finalized by early 2023 to minimize inconvenience for road users. It could be recalled that in April 2023, former Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola acknowledged that the previous administration was unable to fulfil its promise due to security challenges encountered in 2022 and the relocation of certain communities along the Zaria segment of the 265km road project. FURTHER READING CBT WASSCE Will Cause Mass Failure In The North – Arewa Youth Tells WAEC Confusion As Senate Denies Receiving Rice Worth N200m As Palliatives Market Day Massacre: 6 Traders Dead As Gunmen Attack Convoy In Katsina Despite the initial plan for the road to be completed, the project extended until the end of Fashola’s tenure, with only the Kaduna to Zaria section being finished out of the three sections. Click to watch our video of the week https://youtu.be/34-YJ8KHN6M?si=_ZofNKR02k6x_bu-

  EKO HOT BLOG reports that President Bola Tinubu-led government has approved the release of the sum of N17 billion for the completion of the Abuja-Kaduna-Kano highway project. The government announced its expectation that all sections of the highway be finished within a span of 24 months. EDITOR’S PICKS Bye-Election: Ani Emerges APC Candidate To Fill … Read more

Yuletide: FRSC Opens Enugu-Onitsha Highway To Ease Traffic

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EKO HOT BLOG reports that ahead of the festive period, MTN Nigeria is partnering the Federal Road Safety Corps to temporarily open the Amawbia, Anambra State sections of the partially completed Enugu-Onitsha Dual Carriage Way. MTN is the financier of the dual carriageway that connects Anambra and other South-East states. EDITOR’S PICKS New ICPC Chairman Musa … Read more

Lagos Court Convicts 8 For Ignoring Pedestrian Bridge, Crossing Highway

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Eko Hot Blog reports that the Lagos State Environmental Sanitation Corps (LAGESC) has arraigned and secured the conviction of eight persons for endangering their lives by crossing the highway at the Ojota area of the state. The Corps Marshal of the Agency, CP Gbemisola Akinpelu (retd) made this disclosure at the Command Headquarters, Bolade-Oshodi. “While … Read more

JUST IN: Protesting Women Block Makurdi-Abuja Highway

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Protesting Women

EKO HOT BLOG reports that protesting women staged a barricade on the Makurdi/Laafia/Abuja federal highway on Friday following an attack by suspected herdsmen. Five people were slain in separate attacks in two communities in Guma Local Government Area, Benue State. EDITOR’S PICKS BREAKING: Tinubu Appoints Special Investigator To Probe CBN BREAKING: ECOWAS Imposes No Flight … Read more

Policeman Killed, Another Injured As Gunmen Abduct Travellers Along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway

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One police officer assigned to the Oyo State Command has been confirmed dead, while another has suffered serious injuries while responding to a distress call from a kidnapping incident. Eko Hot Blog reports that the injured officer is receiving medical care at an unnamed hospital and is reacting to it. EDITOR’S PICKS Panic As Masked … Read more

Again, Gunmen Block Nigerian Highway, Abduct Scores Of Passengers

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Bandits have reportedly blocked Enugu Port Harcourt highway      EKO HOT BLOG reports that the attackers reportedly razed a military van and wounded two soldiers who attempted to confront them.   Scores of passengers were, on Saturday, abducted when gunmen, suspected to be herdsmen, who blocked Enugu-Port Harcourt highway between Leru Junction and Ihube … Read more

Angry Monarchs Storm Benue Highway, Chase Away Criminal Elements, Fake Tax Collectors

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Mast

Traditional rulers of communities in Ushongo Local Government Area of Benue state on Saturday personally storm the busy Gboko-Lessel-Ihugh-Tse-Mker highway to chase away the fraudsters and criminal elements operating illegal revenue collection points in their domain. Vanguard gathered from a source in the area that the fraudsters who mount several illegal checkpoints on the stretch … Read more

Travellers Stranded As Drivers Barricade Highway Over Serial Kidnapping

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Travellers have been stranded as drivers barricaded highway over serial kidnapping. EKO HOT BLOG reports that scores of travellers were stranded on Thursday on the Benin-Auchi Road as drivers blocked the route with their vehicles to protest against the abduction of one of their colleagues on Wednesday. The blockade, which was mounted along the road … Read more

Influx Of Tricycles On Highway, An Indication Of Failure Of Intra-City Bus System – FRSC

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Napep

The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) says the influx of tricycles into city roads as a means of transportation, is an indication of failure of intra-city bus systems. Corps Public Education Officer, Mr Bisi Kazeem stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), in Abuja, on Friday. Kazeem decried dominance of … Read more

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