Minister of Works, David Umahi, and Senator Aminu Tambuwal (PDP-Sokoto), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Housing, on Thursday inspected the newly constructed BUA Cement’s fifth plant in Sokoto State. Umahi, who was in Sokoto to inspect the reconstruction of a 372 km dual road from Sokoto...
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The Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, on Saturday, ordered the arrest of some persons trading on the completed section of the Aba axis of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, still undergoing rehabilitation. Umahi, who was in Aba to inspect the project, directed the security operatives attached to his...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi says President Bola Tinubu has approved funds for the construction of the Second Niger Bridge Bypasses, Lagos-Ibadan highway and the Lafia Bypass. Umahi said this on Thursday in Makurdi, during the inspection of the Lafia Bypass Road and dualisation of 9th...
The Federal Government on Friday assured that it would now deliver the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Dual Carriageway in 24 months, instead of in 2024. The Minister of Works, David Umahi, made this disclosure on Friday when he inspected the road. Umahi was accompanied on the inspection by Mr Wale Edun,...
The Federal Government says it is set to pay up the N1.5 trillion debt owed contractors for the construction of federal highways across the country. Government, however, advised them to be serious in executing its projects. The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, said this at a meeting...
By EMMANUEL KUJE, Abuja – The Minister of Works, David Umahi has been named as The Top10 Magazine’s Minister of the Year 2023. He emerged the stand-out choice among other distinguished Ministers in a multi-stage rigorous selection and screening process. In a letter conveying Engr. Umahi’s emergence...
The Ministry of Works in collaboration with the Lagos State government on Wednesday flagged off the Emergency Repairs of the Third Mainland Bridge. Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, accompanied by the Deputy Governor of Lagos, Dr Obafemi Hamzat, during the flag-off, said ongoing emergency rehabilitation of the...
The Minister of Works Sen. David Umahi says that the ministry needs a total of N217bn to reconstruct 260 road projects and eight bridges across the country. The minister disclosed this while inaugurating four road project committees on Thursday in Abuja. He said the committees were being inaugurated...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has said that all hands must be on deck, and work in unity to deliver the country from total collapse. The Director of Press and Publicity in the ministry, Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams, said this in a statement in Abuja. She quoted...
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi, has warned indigenous and expatriate contractors engaged in the construction of road projects across the country against substandard works. The minister, gave the warning in Abuja at a meeting with contractors handling federal roads, said sub-standard work was no longer acceptable....
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has said that his activities since assumption of office do not suggest he is probing the work done by the past administration. Umahi said this in Calabar on Friday after the inspection of federal roads in Cross River. He, however,...
The Federal Government is planning two super highways across the country through a Public Private Partnership scheme. Minister of Work Dave Umahi disclosed this to the State House Correspondents on Sunday after a meeting with President Bola Tinubu in Abuja. He said that the highways would be...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has urged MTN Nigeria Communications to include Ife-Ondo road in the projects it is undertaking under the tax credit scheme in the country. Mrs Blessing Lere-Adams, Director, Press and Public Relations Unit, Federal Ministry of Works, disclosed this in a statement....
Minister of Works, David Umahi expressed shock on Sunday at the sight of the gully erosion at Oba, a community in Anambra on the Onitsha-Owerri Expressway. Umahi assured that the Federal Government would take urgent steps to ensure that the Owerri-bound side of the expressway was not severed...
The Minister of Works, Dave Umahi has asked the Presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP) in the 2023 general election, Peter Obi not to appeal the judgement of the Presidential Election Petition Tribunal (PEPT) which affirmed the victory of President Bola Tinubu at the poll, saying that...
The Minister of Works, Sen. Dave Umahi on Wednesday stopped some road construction in the Southeast pending the review of the existing and additional contracts. Umahi gave the directive on Thursday in Enugu during the inspection of some ongoing construction/rehabilitation of federal roads across states in the South-East....
Some stakeholders and a cross section of Nigerians have commended the minister of works, Dave Umahi, on his expressed commitment to the takeoff and completion of the proposed Abuja-Lagos “super” highway project. The broad consensus among stakeholders and Nigerians is that the project, when completed, would...
The Minister of Works, Sen. David Umahi, has reiterated the use of concrete pavement technology in road construction projects for its cost effectiveness and durability. Umahi said this during a courtesy visit to the Acting Governor of Ondo State, Lucky Aiyedatiwa, in Akure on Friday. The minister...
The Minister of Works, Mr David Umahi, on Tuesday introduced night construction to fast track Nigeria’s highway projects in line with global practices. Umahi said this during a visit to project sites in Lagos/Ogun States. He said during the visit that the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway rehabilitation/reconstruction was 98...