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Nigeria: Imo Orders Contractors Back to Site

November 20, 2009 - 12:25
Contractors handling various roads and building projects for Imo State Government, have been ordered to go back to site and complete their assignments.
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Nigeria: Delayed Completion of Abuja Multi-Level Car Park Worries Businesses

November 20, 2009 - 11:04
Commercial and business outfits around the Area 10 shopping complex in Abuja have expressed dismay over the non-completion of the proposed multi-level car park project initiated by the FCT Administration, which according to them, is causing them severe hardship.
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Nigeria: Sango-Otta Bridge for Completion in February

November 20, 2009 - 11:02
Lamentations of motorists along the Lagos/ Aabeokuta Expressway due to traffic gridlock may soon be over following recent pledge by the construction giant, Julius Berger Construction company that the construction of Sango Otta bridge would be completed come February 2010.
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Nigeria: Contractors Accused of Using Inferior Materials

November 19, 2009 - 13:26
Two major contractors handling the N30 million Naira renovations work at the Police Children's School at the Police Barracks, Otop Abasi in Cross River State, have been accused of using inferior materials for the job.
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Botswana: Community Junior Secondary School Comes to Gerald

November 19, 2009 - 09:51
The Principal District Officer (development) Gobe Macha has said that a plot has been secured for the construction of a community junior secondary school at the Gerald Estates location.
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Nigeria: Old Boys Renovate School With Over N186 Million

November 18, 2009 - 16:39
The sum of N186million was spent in the renovation and provision of classroom furniture for Government Science Secondary School, Gombe by its Old Boys Association.
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South Africa: Conco Powers Rising Buildworks Revenue

November 18, 2009 - 14:26
BUILDWORKS, a supplier of heavy building materials to the construction industry, said yesterday its strategic positioning in the provision of infrastructure to the African power market provided it with a "fairly" robust buffer against the volatility of the market place.
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South Africa: Road Agency Scaling Back Its Projects in Johannesburg

November 18, 2009 - 14:24
THE Johannesburg Roads Agency yesterday said budget cuts had forced it to scale back some road projects and "reprioritise" others in the country's richest city, which is battling with backlogs on capital projects and maintenance.
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Uganda: New Construction Policy to Weed Out Quack Engineers

November 18, 2009 - 12:45
The government has put forward a Building Control Bill to regulate players in the construction industry and guarantee planned and secure building structures in the country.
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Uganda: Govt to Build 6,000 Classrooms

November 18, 2009 - 12:43
The government will acquire a $150million (about Shs300bn) loan from the World Bank for the enhancement of education programmes and facilitation of teachers' welfare, Daily Monitor has learnt.
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Nigeria: The Benefits of Site Selection in Planning The City

November 18, 2009 - 10:52
We could recall that on his entry to the reception hall of the then Nicon Noga Hilton Hotel, now known as the Transcorp Hilton, the revolutionary Burkina Faso leader, Late Captain Thomas Sankara, made the exclamation "Who said Nigeria is not rich?" This was in the mid eighties.
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Nigeria: Abia to Construct Ring Road in Aba

November 18, 2009 - 10:32
The Abia State government has said that it is constructing a ring road that will service the Aba industrial in the state, governor Theodore Orji has said.
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Nigeria: FHA Commissions 240-Unit Lugbe Estate

November 18, 2009 - 10:32
The much talked about 240 units Lugbe housing estate extension located in Lugbe area of the FCT was formally commissioned yesterday by the Minister of State for Works, Housing and Urban Development Mrs. Grace Ekpiwhre.
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Nigeria: Katsina -Kano Road Rehab to Gulp N2.3 Billion

November 18, 2009 - 10:32
Reconstruction and rehabilitation of Kano-Daura-Katsina road and the expansion of three killer bridges along Katsina-Daura is to cost the federal government a total of two point three billion naira (N2.32bn), minister of works Dr Hassan Lawal disclosed.
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Nigeria: Senate Chides Contractors Handling South East Roads

November 18, 2009 - 09:40
CONTRACTORS handling the rehabilitation of the Enugu-Port-Harcourt Expressway and the Enugu - Onitsha Expressway have been seriously reprimanded by the Senate Committee on Works for failing to perform, six months after the contracts were awarded.
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Rwanda: Rwf $23.5 Million Road Project Gets Parliament Nod

November 18, 2009 - 08:52
Parliament on Monday approved a $23.5m grant from the African Development Bank's for the rehabilitation and maintenance of Butare-Kitabi-Ntendezi road project.
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Botswana: U.S. Gives Old Palapye Church a Facelift

November 17, 2009 - 16:56
The American embassy in Gaborone is contributing $44,000 for the renovation of a colonial church at Old Palapye, present day Malaka.
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Namibia: European Loan Helps Build Cement Factory

November 17, 2009 - 15:14
OHORONGO yesterday secured nearly N$1 billion of the required N$2,5 billion to develop the country's only cement factory.
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Uganda: Low Cost Estate Unveiled

November 17, 2009 - 12:49
AN ultra-modern community housing project that will provide low-cost homes has been unveiled. The project is a joint venture between Bageine Company Ltd., Pinnacle Projects Ltd. and the Uganda Broadcasting Corporation (UBC).
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Uganda: Sh850 Billion for Luweero, Rwenzori Regions

November 17, 2009 - 12:48
THE Government has earmarked sh850b for the development of the Luweero Triangle and Rwenzori regions that were devastated by war.
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