FG Approved N2BN For Repair Of Ikorodu-Sagamu Road

The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a contract for the rehabilitation of the Ikorodu-Sagamu Road which links Lagos State to Ogun State.

The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

Mohammed put the cost of the rehabilitation contract at N2bn.

He said the rehabilitation would reduce accidents and travel time on the road.

The minister said, “The significance of the award of this contract is that it will reduce road accidents and loss of lives. Of course, it will reduce travel time and operating cost for transporters and commuters, and more importantly, it will enhance the movement of petroleum and agricultural products and also facilitate other commercial activities.

“If you remember, Mosinmi, the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation depot, is along that line.”

The Minister of State for Aviation, Hadi Sirika, also said the council approved N4.233bn for automated fire and smoke aircraft training simulator for airports.

Sirika said, “The purpose of that memo was to award a contract for the design, manufacture and installation of fully automated fire and smoke aircraft training simulator. The total contract sum is N4, 233.756.00.

“The council graciously considered and approved the contract. This fire-fighting equipment is extremely very important because when we came into government in 2015, l found myself approving several hundreds of thousands of dollars for our fire-fighters to go to Cameroon to get trained for proficiency in fire-fighting and come back to fight fire in Nigeria with 30 airports.

“We cannot continue to depend on a neighbouring country to learn how to fight fire. So, we conceptualised and developed the project.

“Federal fire service, state governments and anybody can leverage the equipment that we will bring to fight fire.”

The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, said the council approved the construction of the Faculty of Law building for the University of Uyo.

“The Ministry of Education today (Wednesday) just presented a memo on the building of Faculty of Law structure in University of Uyo, Akwa Ibom and it has been approved.

“It will enable the university to house the Faculty of Law on its main campus and then provide office spaces,” he said.

The Minister of Sports and Youth Development, Solomon Dalung, said he presented the major highlights of the ministry’s achievements to the council.

Dalung said one of the major achievements of the ministry was the democratisation of the national sports federations.

He said that had gone a long way in improving performances in sports.

He said the ministry also looked at the issue of youth development and reviewed the National Youth Policy.

“We also tried to draw the attention of the council to the need for an effective synergy between the MDAs to be able to address the youth question which is more or less growing like a tsunami and if due attention is not given to it, we will likely have problems,” Dalung said.

The Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Stephen Ocheni, said the ministry also presented its status report from 2015 to date.

“We looked at different regulations that have been put in place by this administration and then looked at the Employee Compensation Act.

“This is a committee that is ongoing and of course under a different regulation particularly the driving at work regulation jobs of up to about 15,000 unemployed Nigerians or graduates that are likely to be employed if this regulation comes into effect.

“The committee that works in the Employee Compensation Act is about to round off and in a very short, while the report of this committee will be made public,” he said.