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A single announcement from the Federal Ministry of Works has once again placed the question of political self commemoration at the centre of national conversation, after the government renamed its flagship coastal road the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, making it the sixth public facility to bear the President’s name since he…
The Federal Government has renamed the Lagos to Calabar Coastal Highway as the President Bola Ahmed Tinubu Coastal Highway, tying the country’s costliest single road project directly to the man whose administration revived it, even as questions over the project’s price tag, procurement and environmental footprint remain unresolved. Minister of Works David Umahi announced…
Nigeria’s railway has carried freight and passengers for well over a century, yet it has rarely paid its own way. That financial reality returned to public attention this month when the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) admitted it can no longer cover its operating costs without borrowing. The corporation said it has been running at…
The collapse of the Mooro bridge in Kwara state has severed a primary artery for Nigeria’s internal food trade. A heavy truck triggered the structural failure on Wednesday night, effectively cutting off the state capital from its northern agricultural hubs. This corridor serves as the main transit point for grains, tubers, and perishables moving from…
Fidet Okhiria, the long-serving former managing director of the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC), now finds himself in a different kind of station. Arraigned before a Lagos court on a seven-count charge, Mr. Okhiria is accused of money laundering, abuse of office, and “unlawful enrichment,” the polite legal term for a public official getting rich on…
Nigeria’s energy and maritime landscape is set for a major shift as President Bola Tinubu has approved the commencement of commercial oil drilling in Ogun State, officially positioning the state as an emerging oil-producing hub. Ogun State Governor, Dapo Abiodun, disclosed the approval on Thursday during a courtesy visit by the Flag Officer Commanding, Western…
