The Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the variation order for the East-West road project sections 1-4 from N246 billion to N506 billion.
Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice-President, briefed State House correspondents after the FEC meeting on Wednesday in the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
According to him, the Minister for Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, presented a memo in line with Federal Government’s continued engagement to provide succour and resolve issues around the recent flooding.
“He got approval for the variation order in respect of repair works on the East-West road project affected during the recent flooding in the Niger Delta.
“The approval was for a variation order for the East-West road project sections 1-4 from Warri to Port Harcourt, Eket and Oron, including Oron-Eket bypass, in the sum of N260billion, thereby increasing the total contract sum for the outstanding sections 1-4 of the East-West road projects from the sum of formerly of N246billion now to N506billion.
“The memo was approved.”
Akande said that the Minister for Works and Housing also approved the award of contracts for urgent repairs and special general maintenance of some roads nationwide.
He said the approval included the construction of Gogora-Guru Road in Yobe State, which will cost N40 billion and take 36 months to complete.
“He also got approval for the rehabilitation of the 90-kilometre Buni-Gari-Gulani road, also in Yobe State, in the sum of N4billion, with a completion period of 36 months.”
The Senior Special Assistant said that the minister got approval for urgent road repairs and the reconstruction of Water Cooperation Drive, Trinity Avenue in Victoria Island, Lagos State.
“That too was also approved in the sum of N2billion, with a completion period of 36 months.”
According to him, the minister also got approval to award a contract for the dualisation and reconstruction of the Kano-Kwana-Ganja-Hadejia road in Kano and Jigawa States.
“This was approved in the sum of N94billion inclusive of 7.5 per cent VAT, with a completion period of 24 months,” Akande said.
REPORTERS AT LARGE earlier reported that the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, has approved the establishment of a space museum and planetarium in Abuja.
Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation, Mr Adeleke Mamora, said this while briefing Journalists at the end of Wednesday’s cabinet meeting.
