The Federal Executive Council, on Wednesday, approved a total sum of N15.57bn for various contracts in the Ministries of Works and Housing, Education, and Industry, Trade and Investment ministries.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, alongside his counterparts in the Ministries of Education, Adamu Adamu, and Industry, Niyi Adebayo, disclosed to State House Correspondents after this week’s Council meeting, which was chaired by the President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja.
Fashola, whose ministry received N9.69bn, said the Council approved the amount for refund of monies spent on federal roads by the Plateau and Borno states governments.
According to the former Lagos State governor, the roads in question were constructed before July 2016, when the federal government halted such interventions.
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