Tag: Abuja highway

FG awards 470km Abuja-Lagos superhighway contract to company owned by Kenny Martins 

Aminu Imam

A company owned by the chairman of the defunct Police Equipment Fund (PEF), Kenny Martins, named: Advance Engineering Company (AEC) Network Ltd., has won the concession to construct the proposed 470km concrete-built Abuja-Lagos Greenfield superhighway on a Build, Operate and Transfer (BOT) arrangement.  The Minister of Works, David Umahi, disclosed this in an interview with newsmen in Lagos at the weekend.  According to him, the highway shall be completed in four years, and will last for 100 years. He said the road will be built by a private sector consortium…

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Bandits kidnap senior police intelligence officers on Abuja highway 

Aminu Imam

Armed bandits have abducted two senior police intelligence officers who were travelling along the highway between Abuja and Kogi State during the week, according to sources.  The officers were reportedly seized while on a reconnaissance mission in Kogi, where violent insurgents have claimed responsibility for killings and abductions in recent weeks. The officers were said to be on a critical investigation assignment to Kogi when they were seized by bandits on August 23, but the Police leadership allegedly hushed the crisis to avoid another public agitation over the country’s insecurity. According…

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