Laolu Akande, Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity in the Office of the Vice President, Laolu Akande made the announcement after the FEC meeting presided over by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo.
According to Akande, the expected expenditure was in furtherance of the Federal Government’s Road Infrastructure Development and Refurbishment Investment Tax Credit Policy, phase two by the NNPC Ltd and its subsidiaries.
He said the council also approved concessionaires for nine road corridors under the pilot phase of the Value Added Concession of the highways development and management initiative following the issuance of the requisite full business case compliance certificates by the Infrastructure Concession Regulatory Commission for a period of 25 years.
Akande listed the road corridors approved for the first phase as the Benin-Asaba corridor, Abuja-Lokoja-Onitsha-Owerri-Aba-Shagamu-to Benin, Abuja-Keffi-Akwanga-Lafia-Makurdi, Kano-Maiduguri, that is the Kano Shauri, Enugu-Port Harcourt, Lagos-Ota-Abeokuta, and Lagos-Badagry-Seme.
The media aide said the FEC also approved the augmentation of contract for the rehabilitation of the Oshogbo-Ilesha Road in favour of Messers Orizon construction company in the sum of N1.2bn, thereby revising the subsisting contract sum from N3bn to N4bn, representing an increase of 33% of the original sum.
Hadi Sirika, Minister of Aviation, said the FEC approved N2,296,897,404 for the local assemblage of Magnus Centennial Aircraft and Stimulator in Zaria, Kaduna State.
Sirika said the local assemblage of Magnus training aircraft in the country was expected within the next 18 months, stating that two of such aircraft should ready before the end of the present administration in May this year.
The Aviation Minister stated that Nigeria will soon commence manufacturing of aircraft.
According to him, the manufacturer of the airplane is based in Hungary and has local company called Ingenious to be done in Zaria.
Sirika also disclosed that his ministry presented two memoranda bordering on the local assemblage of Magnus aircraft and review of the cost of Instrument Landing System (ILS) in three airports by additional N546,109,336. 33 with 7.5 percent VAT.
Furthermore, he said the FEC also approved the memorandum that revised the estimated total cost and augmentation of contract for procurement and installation of Instrument Landing System (ILS) at Port Harcourt International Airport, Kano International Airport, and Katsina Airport.
He explained that the contract, awarded earlier was reviewed owing to fluctuations in foreign exchange.
Similarly, the Minister of Environment, Mohammed Abdullahi, said the council approved N1,354,016,250 for the procurement of 31 project vehicles for the hydrocarbon pollution remediation projects in Ogoni land of Rivers State.
Abdullahi stated that the vehicles of various brands would be deployed for the monitoring of power and remediation projects in some polluted areas.