THIS DAY Thirteen years after it was taken away from the Ministry of Works and Housing, President Muhammadu has ordered the return of the problematic East-West Road to the ministry from the Senator Godswill Akpabio-led Niger Delta ministry which had…
THE DAY Thirteen years after it was taken away from the Ministry of Works and Housing, President Muhammadu has ordered the return of the problematic East-West Road to the ministry from the Senator Godswill Akpabio-led Niger Delta ministry which had…
VANGUARD The Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Senator Godswill Akpabio has secured the sum of N10.4 billion from the 2021 Sovereign SUKUK Issuance for the completion of the dualisation of the East West highway project. The Minister of Finance, Budget…
THE SUN Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, has announced that President Muhammadu Buhari will commission sections 1 to 4 of the East-West road in 2022. Akpabio explained that the road had been in a deplorable condition because the…
THE GUARDIAN Despite Federal Government’s release of N2.5 billion for compensation for the construction of the Eleme-Onne axis of the East-West Road, Ogoni youths, yesterday, protested at the site of the construction. Addressing the protesting youths at the blocked site,…
THE GUARDIAN Says FG has injected fresh N20 billion into project Minister of Niger Delta Affairs, Godswill Akpabio, yesterday, appealed to protesting Niger Delta youths to be patient with the Federal Government, as the ministry has injected another N20 billion…
PUNCH NEWS PUNCH NEWS Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, has urged the Federal Government to fulfil the promises it made to Nigerians, especially the state. Wike, who spoke while inaugurating the Community Secondary School, Eteo, Eleme and Community Secondary School,…
VANGUARD The Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Sunday said it has channeled 70 percent of its 2021 budget towards the completion of the East-West highway dualisation project. The Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs, Dr. Babayo Ardo disclosed this…
THE GUARDIAN Minister of State for Niger Delta Affairs, Omotayo Alasoadura, yesterday, hinted that the Federal Government is ready to borrow to ensure that the East-West road gets completed by April 2022. He stated this during the inspection of sections…
THIS DAY I was in primary six in 1977 when for the first time I saw Dumez caterpillars tearing the bushes and forests in Emohua for the purpose of constructing a road. That road was called the East-West road. Then…
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