The Federal Executive Council (FEC) Wednesday approved N200.176 billion for the construction of link-roads connecting the Second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Raji Fashola, at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
“Secondly, for the link-road that connects the second Niger Bridge to Asaba and Onitsha. The Asaba link-road was awarded to Julius Berger and the Onitsha link-road was awarded to RCC Construction at the total cost of N200.176 billion.
“So, 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. This was awarded initially under a public private partnership (PPP) and the bridge in 2010 administration,’’ he said.
Also speaking, Minister of State for Education, Mr Emeka Nwajuba, said the council approved N915 million for the construction of Faculty of Environment at the University of Abuja another N918 million for the construction of Faculty of Education at the university.
The federal government also approved the sum of N109.4 billion for the construction of the Ibadan-Ilesha-Ife and Kano-Katsina dual carriage ways.
This was disclosed by the Minister of Works and Housing, Raji Fashola, at the end of the weekly FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
The minister said N79.8 billion of the amount would be expended on the Ibadan-Ilesha-Ife dual carriage way while the remaining N29.6 billion was for the construction of the phase two of the Kano-Katsina dual carriage way.
“Ministry of Works and Housing presented three memoranda and they were approved for – one, the construction of the Ibadan – Ilesha – Ife dual carriage way that connects Oyo and Osun states for N79.82billion
“The third approval was for phase two of the Kano-Katsina High Way from the point known as Gidan-Mutun Daya all the way to where Katsina Steel Rolling Mill is (located).
“This is a 78 kilometres stretch approved at the sum of N29.654 billion. That road is a 172kilometres road linking Kano and Katsina road from Kano. It was a single length highway, until it was awarded in 2013 by the previous administration in phase one,’’ he said.
The minister said the road project, which was inherited from the previous administration, was expanded into a dual carriage ways,’’ he said.
