May 2012

[The Star]

Several leaders from Murang'a have demanded the immediate repair and upgrading of the Kenol-Murang'a road. Former Cabinet minister Joseph Kamotho and two Kiharu parliamentary aspirants Antony Kamutu and Kamotho Njenga demanded that the government immediately allocate funds for the upgrading of the road.

[EA Business]
Kampala -
Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) has undertaken road construction along the Kawempe -Mpererwe road, five miles north of Kampala to reduce traffic congestion on the Bombo highway.

[The Star]

THE Aldai Constituency Development Fund committee has suspended the construction of two public health facilities in Nandi South district following a protracted dispute over ownership of the land.

[The Star]

The Kisumu municipal council has revived the construction of the Sh15 million Maendeleo market.

[Ghanaian Chronicle]

Ghana's growing demand to develop its infrastructure has been given a boost with a US$9m stone quarry facility to supply granite chippings of different sizes to local and foreign firms working in the country's construction industry.

[ANGOP]
Luanda -
The building, where the managing board of Angola company used to operate in Luanda, will start being demolished in this month.

[Times of Zambia]

THE Government has said Zambia is now ready to stage international football matches following the opening of the magnificent Levy Mwanawasa Stadium in Ndola.

[Vanguard]

WILL a new Niger Bridge from Asaba to Onitsha ever be built? It is unlikely since governments do not remember their own words, or just make speeches considered appropriate for occasions. The bridge has been the subject of embarrassments for governments, which never forget to play sickening politics with it.

[Sierra Leone Government]

Energy has been identified by the government of President Ernest Bai Koroma as a panacea for sustainable socio-economic development of Sierra Leone. When he assumed office in 2007, he promised to restore electricity to Freetown, once shamefully dubbed the darkest Capital City in the world throughout the SLPP's eleven years in power. As is usually the case, President Koroma promised to deliver electricity in Freetown in 100 days and he did in record time.

[This Day]

Chairman, Subsidy Rein-vestment and Empowerment Programme (SURE-P), Dr. Christopher Kolade, at the weekend said the gains of the Programme were evident in its investments in mass transit, road construction, maternal and child health care delivery services and pledged that the committee is poised to enforce strict implementation of its mandate.

[This Day]

Indications emerged at the weekend that the Federal Govern-ment may have concluded plans to rebuild the 120 kilometres Nguru-Gashua-Bayamari road in Yobe State, which was constructed 40 years ago linking the country to Niger republic and Cameroon.

[Independent]

The government has earmarked Shs 100 billion to compensate people who will be displaced by the new Entebbe Highway but fears are emerging that the controversies that delayed the northern by pass could also derail the project off schedule.

[Leadership]

In the run-up to the just-concluded South-South Summit held in Asaba, the capital of Delta State, the state commissioner of economic planning, Mr. Ken Opara, announced that the state government would be committing a whopping N7.5 billion to demolishing a hill near the Asaba airport.