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The Federal Executive Council meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, SAN, on Wednesday approved the sum of N311.47 billion for completion of some ongoing road projects across the country.
Minister of Works and Housing, Mr Babatunde Fashola, who briefed State House correspondents after the Council meeting listed some contracts to benefit from the approval to include roads linking the second Niger Bridge both from the Asaba and Onitsha end.
The bridge which is currently under construction is believed to be about 50 per cent completion stage.
Fashola disclosed that his ministry presented three memoranda and they were approved by the council: construction of Ibadan -Ile-Ife Dual Carriage Way, they are connected to Oyo and Osun State at the cost of N79.829 billion.
He revealed that link roads connecting the Second Niger bridge both from the Asaba and Onitsha end was awarded to Julius Berger Nigeria Limited at the cost of N200.176billion, while Kano-Katsina highway linking Gidan Mutum Daya to Katsina steel rolling mill will gulp N29,654billion.
Other projects which scaled through FEC’s approval was Tertiary Education Trust Fund(TETFund) funded programme for the construction of two faculties, environment and education at the University of Abuja at the cost of N915million and N918million respectively.
“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 Reynolds 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.
