The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved the award of N51.4 billion contracts for the construction and rehabilitation of 13 roads across the country.<\/p>\n
The Minister of Works, Mike Onolememen, made this known when he briefed State House Correspondents on the outcome of the Wednesday\u2019s FEC meeting.<\/p>\n
He said the contracts also included that of a satellite imagery map of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that the FEC meeting was presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan at the Presidential Villa.<\/p>\n
The minister said that FEC approved 13 contracts valued N47.8 billion for the construction and rehabilitation of 13 roads spread across the six-geopolitical zones.<\/p>\n
“The roads for construction and rehabilitation are Vandeikya-Obudu-Obudu Cattle Ranch Road phase one in Benue, Mbaise-Ngwa Road in Imo and Abia and Abriba-Arochukwu-Ohafia Road, also in Abia.<\/p>\n
“The Makurdi-Gboko Road phase one in Benue, Ohafia in Abia to Oso in Ebonyi, Sections 1A and 1B of Sokoto-Tambuwal-Jega-Kontagora Roads, respectively in Sokoto State, Kebbi and Niger were also among those awarded,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
Onolememen said the contracts awarded also included those for Kunya-Kanya-Babura-Babban Mutum Road in Jigawa, Zing-Yakoko-Monkin Road in Taraba and Alkeleri-Bauchi Road in Bauchi.<\/p>\n
“They also include Aguoba-Owa-Mgbagbu Owa-Ebenebe at the Anambra border to the Awaha-Oyofo-Iwollo Road in Enugu State, the Ofa by-pass in Ofa council in Kwara and the Ikot-Ekpene border-Ada Owerri dualisation section phase one in Akwa-Ibom, Abia and Imo,\u2019\u2019 he said.<\/p>\n
The minister said work had commenced on the roads since January and had reached various stages of not more than 10 per cent in all the 13 roads contracts.<\/p>\n
He said the approval was in line with the determination of the Jonathan administration to address the deteriorating and deplorable conditions of the national road network.<\/p>\n
“The federal road network under consideration is critical to the socio-economic development of the nation because the roads will serve various agricultural communities and lead to major industries and tourist attraction locations,\u2019\u2019 Onolememen said.<\/p>\n
The minister said FEC also ratified the award of contract for the acquisition of multi-users and multi-spectral image map of Nigeria.<\/p>\n
He said the contract awarded in favour of Messrs Infotera of the UK in the sum of N3.7 billion had a completion period of 24 months.<\/p>\n
The minister added that the satellite imagery map “is a fully digital and multi-spectral map of the whole country with very high resolution\u2019\u2019.<\/p>\n
He said the map also had auto rectified images that would show the imagery of all major towns and cities in the country.<\/p>\n
Onolememen said that the contract included the provision of free training of 100 personnel to be selected by about 20 user ministries, departments and agencies.<\/p>\n
He said the free training would enable the understanding of the product and ensure the transfer of technology.<\/p>\n
The satellite imagery map, according to him, will serve as a useful tool for both civil and military applications.<\/p>\n
He said it could be deployed for geological surveying, including mineral mapping, defence mapping, strategic mapping, tactical and other operational activities of the security agencies.<\/p>\n
The minister said the contractor had since commenced the project and it had reached a completion level of about 35 per cent. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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