Minister of Works David Umahi has ordered the arrest of the Managing Director of Hartland Nigeria Limited over the company’s failure to complete an 11-kilometre section of the Benin-Onitsha Expressway despite receiving about N14 billion from the Federal Government. Umahi gave the order during an on-the-spot inspection of the expressway on Friday, expressing anger over…
The Benin-Ore Expressway is one of Nigeria’s most vital economic corridors. It is the lifeline that connects the South-West to the South-South and South-East, carrying traders, goods, petroleum products and passengers across the country every single day. But today, that lifeline is broken. Hundreds of motorists and commuters were left stranded for several hours after…
(FRSC. Photo Credit: Premuim Times) The Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC) has approved the promotion of 7,472 employees, including 2,134 officers and 5,338 marshals, in an effort to enhance professionalism, leadership, and road safety operations across the country. According to the corps, the promotion was intended to honor distinction and acknowledge the commitment, skill,…
The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved road construction and rehabilitation projects worth about N438 billion nationwide. The approvals also included concessions for trailer parks and highways under public-private partnership arrangements. The Minister of State for Works, Bello Goronyo, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after Wednesday’s FEC meeting. The meeting was presided over…
SaharaReporters’ review of Nigeria’s 2026 Appropriation Act has uncovered N46.616 billion allocated for road construction, rehabilitation, erosion, drainage, bridge and flood-control projects across several states under the budget of the Federal Co-operative College, Oji River, Enugu State, despite the projects having no apparent connection to the institution’s core academic mandate. The projects, spread across states…
(The Fallen Tree With Part of The Lifeless Boy. Photo by Premuim Times) A young commercial motorcyclist was reportedly killed by a falling tree on Abak Road, Uyo, Akwa Ibom State, on Thursday, raising concerns about the upkeep of aged and possibly dangerous trees along important roadways in the state capital. Early on Thursday…
The Minister of Works, David Umahi, has announced that the remaining 164 kilometres of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano highway will be completed by November, a pledge that comes after years of missed deadlines and a project cost that has ballooned from N155 billion to over N752 billion. Speaking on Monday when the leadership of the National Association…
For the residents of Obeagu, an agrarian border community in Ishielu Local Government Area of Ebonyi State, living near the boundary of Enugu and Ebonyi states feels less like a geographic feature and more like a sentence to isolation. Surrounded by fertile farmlands and rich agrarian heritage, the community is currently held hostage by a…
President Bola Tinubu, represented by Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abbas, has officially flagged off the construction of the Tunga Madaki-Zuba access road, a seven-kilometre project linking satellite communities in the Federal Capital Territory to the Abuja-Kaduna Expressway. The President described the project as a direct continuation of the Bill Clinton Drive to…
Barely three months after the federal government opened the first operational segment of the Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway to public use, social media users and motorists have raised fresh concerns over the quality of the project after videos surfaced showing sections of the road undergoing patching and repairs. The Lagos-Calabar Coastal Highway is a 700-kilometre super-highway…
