Federal Executive Council, FEC, has approved the spending of about 600 billion Naira on roads needing urgent attention.
Briefing State House correspondents on the approval, the Minister of Works, Senator David Umahi, said the roads in question were captured in four memoranda.
He listed the projects to include the dualization of Odupani-Itu-Idedem Item-Ikot Ekepene Road in Cross River and Akwa Ibom States, in the sum of 55 billion Naira.
The other project is the dualization of Section Two of the 147-kilometre Ibadan-Ilorin Road in Ogbomosho, Oyo State.
The Minister said the other approval was the spending of 507 billion Naira on the completion of Section Two of the Abuja-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano Road, which is 82 kilometres out of the yet-to-be completed 164 kilometres.
He said FEC had also approved the construction of a flyover at Abakpa, bordering 82 Division of the Nigerian Army, Enugu, explaining that the objective is to ease traffic congestion within the axis at the cost of 24 billion Naira.
Bello Wakili
