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The Southern Kaduna People’s Union, SOKAPU, has mourned the demise of a member of its National Executive Council, NEC, Dr Silas Adamu, his wife and daughter on Monday in a motor accident along the Kaduna-Abuja expressway.
A statement issued by its National Public Relations Officer, Luka Binniyat, noted that “Dr. Silas who was the President of Atyap Community Development Association (ACDA) was a man who spent most of his adult life as a unionist, fighting for the rights and better welfare of the workers he represented.”
The statement explained that Comrade Silas Adamu rose to the rank of Secretary-General of Medical and Health Union of Nigeria (MHUN), stressing that he contested and won the last ACDA national elections to emerge its President last December.
Decades after the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri eastern railway corridor went moribund, federal government on Tuesday revived the 2044.1km railway corridor, expected to cost $3.2bn, or around N1.2 trillion. The project is being funded 85 per cent by the China Civil Engineering and Construction Corporation (CCECC) while the Federal Government makes 15 per cent counterpart fund. President […]
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By Deji Elumoye
President Muhammadu Buhari has disclosed that the reconstruction of Port Harcourt-Maiduguri railway line is to be executed with 85 per cent loan with the federal government providing 15 per cent counterpart funding.
The president, who made this known on Tuesday at the virtual ground-breaking ceremony of three projects namely: the rehabilitation and reconstruction of Port Harcourt-Maiduguri Eastern Narrow Gauge railway project, Bonny deep sea port and Railway Industrial Park, Port Harcourt, also said the railway project when completed will reactivate the dormant economic activities on the Eastern corridor.
He said: “The funding of the railway is through loan to fund 85% project cost and the federal government contribution of 15% as counterpart funding.”
Members of the Ogun State House of Assembly have elected a new Deputy Speaker, DAILY POST reports. It is Hon. Akeem Balogun, representing Ogun Waterside