Federal Executive Council has approved various contracts worth over N80b and additional 10 new rice mills with production capacity of 100 tones per day each.
This is just as FEC also approved a department for traditional medicine at the Federal Ministry of Health for the cure of Malaria.
These were revealed by Ministers while briefing State House Correspondents after the weekly Federal Executive Council, presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.
Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola disclosed that FEC approved additional contracts for additional facilities for the ongoing section A of the Lagos Ibadan Express way at the total of N64.108b.
The new approvals will cover the construction of bypass, pedestrian bridges and walkways to take care of various users of the road, including churches, Universities and industrial complexes located along the road.
Minister of State for Agriculture and Rural Development, Heineken Lokpobiri, also disclosed that FEC approved additional 10 rice mills at the total cost of N10.7b.
Each of the 10 rice mills with a total production capacity of 100 tones each, will be spread across 10 states in each of the six geopolitical zones.
The states include Bayelsa, Kebbi, Zamfara, Ogun, Anambra, Kogi and Benue states, amongst others.
Lokpobiri said the mills will be handed over to private sector operators.
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