The Federal Government has approved some contracts cutting across different sectors of the country.
The approval was announced during the Wednesday Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting after several deliberations.
Some of these contracts include the expansion of the Lagos – Ibadan Expressway, Abuja-Kano road for N155.7billion. Other roads are Ondo-Ogun and Enugu-Onitsha.
The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, revealed that the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road at the cost of N155.7bn and Efire-Araromi-Aiyede-Aiyela Road to connect Ondo and Ogun states at a cost of N14.4bn.
He said for the Enugu-Onitsha highway, the Amansia section, Council has approved the variations of the cost of N38.74bn to enable the contractor to progress with the work.
He also said the project was earlier estimated at N3.486bn and later increased to N3.925bn, with a variation of N439.113m.
“The Council has also approved additional funding for the Nnamdi Azikiwe Mausoleum in Onitsha, Anambra State, which was initiated by the last administration,” Fashola said.
He noted that an additional fund has been approved to complete it from N1.49bn to N1.953bn.
The Council has, besides, approved the Police Service Commission headquarters, in Abuja, in order for the project to be completed in the next six months.
The Minister also disclosed that nine universities were also approved to get independent power plants at the sum of N38.915billion.