[EA Business]
Kampala -
As the construction sector rides on the wheels of development, a new steel metal structure located in Bwaise 3 miles north of Kampala city is yet to be unveiled.
Delta State Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan at the weekend justified the N7.4 billion earmarked for a hill demolition to get the Asaba International Airport working.
[Daily Trust]
Osogbo -
The Osun State government is to spend N300 million on the construction of a hydro power station at Ikeji-Ile in Oriade Local Government Area of the state.
Represented by the Secretary to the State Government, Mr George Feyii, Amaechi said the completion and commissioning of the market was a huge testimony of his administration's resolve to better the lives of the people and leave lasting and enduring projects for Rivers people.
MOST State-owned firms are being run by incompetent managers as evidencec by their failure to come up with meaningful restructuring proposals, State Enterprises and Parastatals Minister Gorden Moyo has said. This has prompted Government to craft a framework that will guide management of State-owned entities on their restructuring plans.
LOWER interest rates are hardly luring people to build in Windhoek anymore, Simonis Storm Security (SSS) has said, pointing out that building plans approved by the municipality up to April this year is 15,4 per cent lower than the same time in 2011.
The Bayelsa state government yesterday moved against construction firms suspected to have colluded with the past administration of Chief Timipre Sylva to allegedly collect over N7billion road contracts in the state, declaring the road contracts terminated and a refund demanded from the construction firms.
Dr. Hesham Kandil Minister of Water Resources & Irrigation in an interview with the newspaper (el gomhourya) issued in 05/06/2012, stressed the depth of Egyptian-Sudanese relations and described it as eternal, He said that the new regime in Egypt must exert sound efforts to achieve the slogan "Egypt and Sudan are one hand"
The Governor of Delta State, Emmanuel Uduaghan, has said that the N7.4 billion budgeted for the earth movement at the Asaba International Airport was to enhance pilots' visibility and for the airport to accommodate large body aircraft.
[BuaNews]
Pretoria -
Priority has been placed on building police stations in rural areas and townships and ensuring they are correctly capacitated with improved systems and operations, says Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa.
DONORS from the US will help expand six hospitals in Eldoret town to help ease congestion at the Moi Teaching and Referral Hospital. Eldoret mayor William Rono says the six health centres to be expanded include a maternity facility which will give special clinical care to pregnant mothers.
[ANGOP]
Lubango -
The Minister of Agriculture, Rural Development and Fisheries, Afonso Pedro Canga, announced on Friday in Gambos municipality, southern Huila province, the construction of zoo sanitary structures in all districts of Angola.
[Vanguard]
Yenogoa -
Construction giant, Julius Berger has accepted to return to Bayelsa State to resume work on some critical projects it abandoned a few years ago at the height of youth militancy in the Niger Delta.
IN his book 'Icupo Nobuyantashi' (Marriage and development) the late Mr Simon Mwansa Kapwepwe argues that a family is the foundation of a nation, especially one that has many broken or unstable families and may face challenges in national building.
The House of Representatives committee on Land Transport has expressed satisfaction with the N2.4 billion rail rehabilitation project in the North Central part of the country.
The African Development Bank has given the government US$12million (Sh1billion) to carry out design work for the road component of the Lamu Port-South Sudan-Ethiopia transport corridor project. The 800-kilometre road is expected to run from Lamu to Lokichoggio but is unlikely to be funded until after the general elections.
THE Municipal Council of Homa Bay wants to improve the image of the town in a bid to woo investors. Mayor Charles Katinga said plans are underway to install solar street lights within the central part of the town and on its outskirts. "The first phase of the project will involve construction of 42 solar street lights with plans to increase the number to 240," Katinga said yesterday.
[Citizen]
Juba -
A high level delegation from both the neighboring State of the Republic of Ethiopia and Djibouti arrived in Juba Wednesay to attend a technical framework for the construction of South Sudan oil pipelines through the two countries.
THE construction of a 110-kilometre road from Kasama to Mbesuma Bridge in Mungwi District in Northern Province at a cost of K268 billion has progressed according to schedule.
[Public Agenda]
Takoradi -
Mr Paul Evans Aidoo, Western Regional Minister, has warned contractors to sit up and deliver quality works because government will not entertain shoddy works.
[ANGOP]
Huambo -
The Law on Territory Planning is an important tool for the performance of the activities and excellent to fulfil the objectives set by the Government for the sector, said Thursday in central Huambo province, the vice minister of Urbanisation and Construction.
The Taraba State government has awarded two separate contracts worth N10 billion for the construction of 4km roads in the headquarters of each of its 16 local government areas.
[Daily Trust]
Yola -
Adamawa State government says it earmarked N7.5 billion to spend on construction of six roads across the three senatorial districts of the state in the 2012 fiscal year.
