Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved contracts totalling N311.47 billion.
The contracts are for road construction in parts of the country and provision of educational infrastructures at the University of Abuja.
Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, and 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 N200.17 billion for construction of 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 connected to Oyo and Osun States at the cost of N79.829 billion.
Fashola disclosed that FEC approved link-road that connects the second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha.
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The roads include Asaba link-road awarded to Julius Berger and the Onitsha linkroad awarded to Reynold Construction at the total cost of N200.176 billion.
“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 bridge that has link-roads.
The contract was awarded initially under a Public Private Partnership ( PPP) in 2010.
“The third approval was for phase two of the KanoKatsina High Way from the point known as GidanMutum 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 have now done is to complete the award to the same contractor so that there is a uniformity of construction,” he said.
Nwajiuba disclosed that one memorandum approved was in respect of TETFUND intervention programme in respect of University of Abuja.
