FG APPROVES N309.9BN ROAD CONTRACT FOR DANGOTE AS TAX CREDIT

prevention of mother to child transmission and also without routine tests that will be done on people who may have absolutely no symptom at all but are carrying HIV virus. So, these test kits we are procuring and we're also including those test kits that can also detect syphilis. Syphilis, as you all know, is another sexually transmitted disease. So, this memo was presented today and passed by Council," he added.

Minister of Power, Mamman Sale, on his part, said his ministry presented three memos which were all approved.

He said: “One is for the construction of 45 km OffafaUmuahia Transmission Line in Abia State, in the sum of $170,465 plus N814.1m. The second one is the construction of 150 33 132 33 1by 60 substation at Obajana with line base extension at Lokoja in the sum of N259.9m.

“The last one is the construction, design, and supply of 2 by 50 MVA 132 33 substations at Ikom with 2 by 132 line base transmission at Calabar, Cross River State. It also includes the design and construction of 220 km Calabar-Ikom 132 Cable Double Circuit Transmission Line. The amount is $39.9m plus N9.5 billion.”