BEVERLY HILLS, February 22, (THEWILL) – The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the sum of $6.7 billion for the construction of the Ibadan – Kaduna rail line.
This was disclosed by the Attorney-General of the Federation (AGF) and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, in a briefing with State House reporters after the weekly meeting on Wednesday chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the State House in Abuja.
He revealed that the reconstruction of the N1.9 billion Clinton Drive and N273 million water treatment chemicals, were some of the approvals given by FEC adding that the Federal Government has saved over N4.5 trillion from high profile cases prosecuted by his Ministry between 2015 and last year saying his Ministry presented its scorecard to Council in the last two and a half years.
“In respect of Federal Ministry of Justice what was presented to the Council today is the score card from 2015 to 2017,” he said.
“Fundamentally arising from the cases that were conducted by the Federal ministry of Justice, the Ministry has succeeded in saving the government around N4.5 trillion relating to the claims that were presented in respect of these cases which were indeed conducted and concluded.”
On prisons, he said a committee has been saddled to come up with policies and strategies to ease prisons’ congestion saying “over 70 per cent of the inmates are awaiting trials there are sizeable number that couldn’t afford to pay limited fine that have been imposed by them arriving from their convictions.”
On his part, Ogbonnaya Onu, Minister of Science and Technology, revealed that as part of the scorecard of his Ministry in the past two and half years, he presented new biscuits being produced in conjunction with Nasco Food.
“High nutrient density products developed and proposed for inclusion in the current Nigerian School Feeding Programme will provide at least a third of the desired major macro and micro nutrients requirement stipulated by the World Health organisation, Food and Nutrition Board.
“The pupils in the schools in Jos and Lagos where the sensory evaluation and consumer acceptability studies were done showed strong likeness for the products and are ready to consume the products if including in the school feeding program,” he said.
