President Buhari Approves N82Bn Road Projects In 12 States (LIST)

The federal executive council (FEC) presided over President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the construction of roads in 12 states at the cost of N82.5bn.

Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, disclosed this to state house correspondents at the end of the council’s meeting on Wednesday.

According to him, the roads will cut across the following states;

Adamawa, Taraba, Sokoto, Zamfara, Bauchi, Plateau, Osun, Kwara, Kano, Oyo, Kaduna and Kano.

He said the council also approved the engineering and consultancy design for access road one and two to link Asaba in Delta state and Onitsha in Anambra state with the second Niger bridge.

The project was launched by former President Goodluck Jonathan in 2014 at the sum of N117 billion.