Elijah Akoji and Aliyu Inuwa Mansir, There were feelings of excitement among the people of the Tudun-Yola community in Gwale LGA of Kano state in 2021 when the news for the construction of the only road connecting their community to other communities in the LGA got to them. If there was anything the people of Tudun-Yola Community ever
By Elijah Akoji, Solace Base The National Commission for Refugees, an agency under the Federal Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management, and Social Development, earmarked a total of N150M for the construction of a federal road in Postikum, Yobe State, according to official records. The road, listed as Lot 1825, was also listed under the
By Archibong Jeremiah In July 2019 the Cross River State Government contracted Swamaco Global Limited to design and construct a soya beans farm city with supporting infrastructure, including an access road network, water supply, and solar lighting system. It was envisaged to cost N1,541,003,500.50. According to the government, the farm is aimed at producing grains
By Adebayo Aare, MAP News No fewer than 6,205 persons died in road accidents in 2021 as the country recorded 13,027 road crashes, according to Nigeria’s National Bureau of Statistics (NBS). One of the many roads on which these accidents occur regularly is the Olomi-Ayegun-Olojuoro-Ijebu Igbo road in Oyo State. A contract for the construction of
By Patrick Obia Akrabah, Akwurinyin, and Abukpem are three of the thirteen political wards which make up Gakem in Bekwarra Local Government Area of Cross River State. It is about five kilometers from the Local Government capital – Abuochiche, 30 Kilometers from Vandeikya Local Government of Benue State, and shares boundaries with neighboring Yala in
Cross River Basin Development Authority, CRBDA, agency of the Federal Government of Nigeria in 2021 contracted Fuuz Nigeria Limited to rehabilitate a solar-powered borehole, and town hall at Ikot Effanga Mkpa in Calabar Municipality for N7.3 million. The contract, CrossRiverWatch Sylvia Akpan reveals, was awarded without budgetary provision which violates section 5, sub 4.2b of
By Archibong Jeremiah Godswill Eteng, a native of Nko community in Yakurr Local Government Area of Cross River state, was shocked to hear that the state government had built a new Model School worth N145,015,738.88 in his community. He first imagined it must be an error because he lives in the community and has neither
By Patrick Obia and Emmanuel Eni For the past three years, the Cross River State Government has budgeted a total of N42 billion for the construction of spaghetti flyover and rehabilitation and dualisation of the Calabar-Odukpani Highway, the major road between Cross River and other States. The State’s 2018 budget, named “Budget of Kinetic Crystallization”