FEC approves 8 more Forensic Auditors for NDDC, Kano-Katsina-Maradi rail line, Umuahia/Bende/Ohafia road construction

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File: President Muhammadu Buhari presides over Federal Executive Council Meeting in State House on Wednesday 23rd September 2020.

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The Federal Government of Nigeria rose from this week Virtual Federal Executive Council meeting, 16th of it, held on Wednesday with approving some contracts that would put smiles on the faces of Nigerians and boost the status of the country in the comity of nations.

They included the approval of eight more Forensic Auditors for a more effectivity in the ongoing probe and turn around of the Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC).

Other approvals went to the sum of  $1.9 billion for the construction of a rail line that will run from Kano through Katsina and will be linked with the Maradi rail line in the neighboring West African nation of Niger Republic.

This, however, is not the only contract approved for the Ministry of Transport.  A N3.04 billion contract was also awarded for the design, manufacture, supply, testing, and commissioning of one railway crane of 150-ton capacity for emergency and recovery of rolling stocks.

Briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting, members of the council gave a breakdown of other memos approved by the council including the one for 62 new black maria vehicles and the construction of the Umuahia/Bende/Ohafia road.

The highway in Umuahia is expected to engulf over N12 billion, while, the sum of N3.7 billion was approved as augmentation of the contract for the construction of the petroleum development fund corporate headquarters in Abuja.

In a similar vein, eight more forensic field auditors were added to the NDDC audit while, 1,800 laptops were approved for the customs service schools in Abuja, Lagos, and Kano for the sum of N351.5 million, and N197.8 million was approved for the expansion of the Nigeria Customs Service cash management software.

Others photos from the FEC meeting:

Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, flanked from left by National Security Adviser, Major General Babagana Monguno, and the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed.

President Muhammadu Buhari observing the national anthem at the FEC meeting on Wednesday September 23, 2020.

From Left: Minister of the Interior, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola, Minister of Transportation, Rt. Hon. Chibuike Rotimi Amaechi, Minister of Works and Housing, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN) and Minister of State for Petroleum, Chief Tipreye Sylva, during the FEC meeting in State House on Wednesday September 23, 2020.


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