The Federal Government on Wednesday said that it would deliver the critical Lagos-Ibadan Road on April 30, 2023.
The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, who made the disclosure said that the government would also complete the second Niger Bridge on May 15.
Mohammed, spoke while briefing State House Correspondents on behalf of his Works and Housing counterpart, Babatunde Fasola, at the State House, Abuja.
He also said that the the Kano-Zaria 137 kilometer and the Zaria-Kaduna, 73 kilometers, will be completed on May 15.
Also the Minister of Works brought approval for the ongoing bypassing, I think along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway, but the good thing about this project is that we can very confidently and proudly announce that the Kano-Zaria 137 kilometer and the Zaria-Kaduna, 73 kilometers, will be handed over to us on May 15.
“Ditto the Second Niger Bridge will be handed over to us on May 15, the Lagos-Ibadan 116 kilometers, with toll gates, will be handed over to us on April 30.”
Mohammed also spoke on other projects completed by the Federal Government in some states.
“The Loko-Oweto Bridge is also completed, so also is the Ikom Bridge completed.
“Our Federal Secretariats in Nasarawa, Awka, Bayelsa and Zamfara State are also completed and the Zuba housing project, 700 apartments, they’re also already for commissioning”, he said.
Speaking also, the Minister of State for Education, Goodluck Opiah, disclosed that FEC approved an estimated N32.4 billion for the completion of the National Library of Nigeria headquarters building complex in Abuja.
“Federal Ministry of Education presented a memo for approval for the revised estimated total cost of contract for the completion of the construction of National Library of Nigeria headquarters building complex in Abuja, the revised estimated cost is N32.4 billion.
“The scope of work for the project includes the construction of a concrete structure consisting of 11 floors, two basement floors and eight upper floors for housing bookstore, locker rooms, bindery, printing press, restaurants, clinic, creches changing rooms exhibition hall, auditorium, cataloguing, general reference areas, legal deposits, office for the administration book stacks, reading areas, electronic data processing center, library research and training center public convenience and underground car pack furnishing as well as perimeter fencing, gates and gatehouses, internal roads, electrical and mechanical services and other external works”, he said.