FEC approves N47bn for road projects

The Federal Executive Council yesterday approved road projects worth N47 billion.

Addressing State House reporters after the meeting, the Minister of Works, Power and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, said N19.392bn was approved for the 44.625km Baban Lamba-Sharam Road in Plateau State.

He said council also approved N22bn revised rate of the 81km Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta Road awarded in 2000.

Fashola said N6.309bn was approved for the section four of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Road.

The Minister of Interior, Abdulrahman Dambazzau, said the cabinet approved N234 million for the completion of cadet mess and cafeteria for the Police Academy in Kano.

FEC also approved a contract for dredging of the Warri escravos seaport. the

The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, stated this while briefing State House correspondents on the outcome of the cabinet meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.

The minister said a sum of N13 would be spent on the project.

Earlier, the Managing Director of the Nigerian Ports Authority, Hadiza Bala Usman, had said the project would fundamentally change the fortunes of Warri ports.

The council also approved establishment of the Nigerian University in Biu, Borno State.

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, disclosed this after the cabinet meeting.

The Chief of Army Staff, Lt. General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, had last June, said the army had already reached out to the National Universities Commission to secure approval for the university. billion the Army