The occupants, who spoke with PUNCH Metro on Thursday, lamented that the poor economic situation of the country had forced them to take shelter under the bridges.
The Governor of Katsina State, Malam Dikko Umaru Radda, has constituted an 11-member Local Organising Committee (LOC) to oversee the hosting of the 17th
Muhammed Rabi’u, a 45-year-old resident of Anguwar Sarakuna in the Bauchi metropolis, bought three poles and cables to connect his house to power supplied by the Jos Electricity Distribution Company (JED) when he first relocated to the area in 2017. He had no option but to invest his personal resources to obtain the electric asset required to tap power for his domestic use after several efforts to get JED to supply the materials proved abortive.
Amid escalating price of building materials and houses, indigenous producers in the housing industry have called on the Federal Government to ban importation of foreign building materials and associated products to ensure growth of local industries.
Unknown gunmen have killed three men and wounded three others at Gurbin Maganiya community in Jibia Local Government Area of Katsina State. Those who lost