The Federal government has approved the rehabilitation of the water supply scheme in Kazaure, Jigawa State at the cost of N3.78 billion awarded to the CGC Nigeria Limited, just as it also raised a memo for the upgrading of Nigeria’s Flight Safety Laboratory with N656 million.
The Minister of Water Resources, Suleiman Adamu, made this known while briefing reporters at the end of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, adding that the water project came about because of the Bwari Irrigation project which was started in 1997 and was abandoned in 2000.
He noted that the facility had been supplying the town with water but was disrupted and for 20 years, the town has been without water, saying “but very soon under our new programme of resuscitating irrigation project with a view to expanding irrigable land available, that irrigation project is set to commence and it is important that this water project takes advantage of the return of this project.”
Meanwhile, Minister of State of Aviation, Heidi Sirika, also disclosed to reporters Wednesday, after the FEC meeting, that the Federal Government has approved a memo to upgrade Nigeria’s Flight Safety Laboratory, which is used for accident investigation purposes. The laboratory was first established in 2012 but it became obsolete for the reasons being that the laboratory used obsolete tape based flight recorders.
Innocent Odoh
