The Federal Executive Council (FEC), Wednesday approved contracts totaling N311.47b.
The contracts are for road construction in parts of the country, and provision of educational infrastructures at the University of Abuja.
Ministers of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola and the Minister of State for Education, Emeka Nwajiuba disclosed this while briefing State House Correspondents, after the FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja
Fashola announced that FEC approved the sum of N200.17b for construction access link roads for the 2nd Niger bridge.
The ministry of works and housing had presented three memoranda and they were approved by the council: construction of Ibadan -Ilesha-Ife Dual Carriage Way, they are connected to Oyo and Osun State at the cost of N79.829 billion.
Fashola disclosed that fec approved link-road that connects the second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha.
The roads include Asaba link-road which awarded to Julius Berger and the Onitsha link-road, awarded to Raynold Construction at the total cost of N200.176 billion.
According to him, “this completes essentially the access road that will link the Bridge in the short time. You might recall that these roads were under-designed when the bridge was awarded. So it is this administration that completed the design and we now awarded them so that you can have a bring that has link-roads.
The contract was awarded initially under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) and the bridge in 2010 administration.
“The third approval was for phase two of the Kano-Katsina High Way from the point known as Gidan-Mutum Daya all the way to where Katsina Steel Rolling Mill is. This is a 78KM stretch approved at the sum of N29.654 billion.
The road is a 172KM road linking Kano and Katsina road from Kano, as single length Highway until it was awarded in 2013 by the previous administration in phase 1.
“So we inherited it and we have continued to execute it. The award was to then expand the road into a dual carriage highway way. That means we are constructing the existing one and building another new one.
“It was awarded for the first 70KM plus for the phase 1 we we have now done is to complete the award to the same contractor so that there is a uniformity of construction.
Minister of state, education, Nwajiuba, disclosed that one memorandum approved was in respect TETfund intervention programme in respect of University of Abuja.
“A key component of that was the award of contract at the sum of N950 million for the construction of the faculty of environment. Another was also approved for he sum of N908 million for the award to build the faculty of education.
“Those are the two components arising from the special intervention programme that was awarded then in 2017. So we have to act to give effect to them so that they can proceed the delivery.
Tony Ailemen, Abuja
