FG Hands Over 35km Apapa-Oworonshoki Expressway to Dangote for Repair Gives 10-year tax incentive as recompense for road rehabilitation Bennett Oghifo in Lagos, Chineme Okafor in Abuja and Alike Ejiofor in Lagos The federal government has handed over the Apapa to Oworonshoki end of the
Lagos - Ibadan Expressway, a 35 kilometres long highway to the Dangote Group to rebuild using concrete, and as well getting a recompense in the form of 10-year tax holiday, the Minister of Power, Works, and Housing, Mr. Babatunde
Fashola, has disclosed. Speaking at the Businessday Road Construction Seminar yesterday in Lagos, Fashola, explained that the contract for the road network comprising Creek Road, Liverpool Road, Marine Beach all the way to
Mile 2, Oshodi, Oworonshoki, to the Lagos end of the Toll Gate on the Ibadan Expressway was signed with the Dangote Group on September 12, 2017. Fashola, said to encourage the Dangote Group to embark on the project which the government is
still waiting for its designs, the government has approved an upward review of a tax incentive to the group to 10 years. "I am pleased to inform you that, we have just concluded an agreement using the tax incentive order to hand over
the Apapa area comprising Creek Road, Liverpool Road, Marine Beach to Mile 2, Oshodi, Oworonshoki to the Lagos end of the Toll Gate on the Ibadan Expressway to Dangote Group Continued on page 8
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South East Governors Proscribe IPOB, Reaffirm Commitment to United Nigeria DHQ declares IPOB terrorist organisation No cause for panic, Masari tells non-indigenes Steer clear of Rivers State, Wike warns Igbos in Kano reject Kanu and his group We'll not run away from Igboland, say northerners in Enugu Obasanjo urges Buhari to dialogue with Kanu Christopher Isiguzo in Enugu, Ernest Chinwo in Port Harcourt, Emmanuel Ugwu in Umuahia, Paul Obi in Abuja, Ibrahim Shuaibu in Kano and John Shiklam in Kaduna
Governors of the South-east zone rose from an emergency meeting in Enugu yesterday and proscribed all activities of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) in the region, even as they appealed to
President Muhammadu Buhari to withdraw the military from the zone. On the same day, the Nigerian Defence Headquarters (DHQ) formally declared IPOB a terrorist organisation, while
former President Olusegun Obasanjo urged President Muhammadu Buhari to dialogue with IPOB leader, Nnamdi Kanu. In an eleven-point communique issued at the end of the meeting in which
they reviewed the prevailing security situation in the zone and its attendant consequences, the governors insisted that they would no longer tolerate the separatist group. They asked IPOB and all
other aggrieved groups to articulate their position on all national issues and submit to the Committee of Governors, Ohanaeze Ndigbo and National Continued on page 8
…Northern Governors Pledge to Sustain Peace, Salute Residents for Non-violence Governors of the 19 northern states have greeted residents across the north for being nonviolent in the face of clashes between members of the Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Soldiers in Abia State which endangered some northerners living in parts of the South-east. The governors, who spoke through Kashim Shettima, Governor of Borno State and Chairman of the Northern States Governors' Forum Continued on page 8
FROM UGANDA WITH LOVE… R -L: President Muhammadu Buhari; wife of Uganda President, Mrs. Janet; wife of Nigerian President, Aisha and President Yoweri Musveni during the Ugandan GODWIN OMOIGUI President's visit to the Presidential Villa, Abuja …yesterday
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