Highlights of FEC Meeting

19 Aug Highlights of FEC Meeting

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting, the first presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari for about three weeks following his trip to the United Kingdom, approved contracts worth N21.11bn for aviation, education, others.

* The Council approved four memoranda for the Aviation ministry at a total cost of N16,697,742,839. They include construction of Wachakal Airport in Yobe State at N6.3 billion; post-construction services for the same airport at the cost of N219.8 million; procurement of eight airport rescue and firefighting vehicles at the cost of N9.5 billion; and a contract for the deployment of sniffer dogs to the Lagos and Abuja international airports at the cost of N658.8 million.

* It approved a memorandum for the Education ministry in favour of the Federal University of Petroleum Resources Effurun (FUPRE), Delta state, for the construction of facilities, including hostels, at the cost of N2.7 billion.

* The Council also approved contracts worth N1,709,469,671 for four federal agencies including Federal Road Safety Commission (FRSC), National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC), Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) and National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

# They include N187.5 million for the procurement of operational vehicles for the FRSC; N537 million was approved for NEITI’s permanent office building for its head office, and N985 million for the procurement and installation of dual body scanners for four international airports in the country.

*For the Ministry of Water Resources, there was approval for the revised estimated total cost for supervision consultancy contract of Ile-Ife Multipurpose Dam Project in Osun State.