The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved N4.078for the execution of contracts in the education sector.
Minister of Education, Mr Adamu Adamu, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the weekly FEC meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari.
He said the three benefiting institutions are the Osun State University, Osogbo; the Federal University, Lokoja and the National Commission for Nomadic Education.
The minister said the the council also approved a memorandum that sought the takeover of the David Umahi University of Medical Sciences in Ebonyi state by the federal government.
“We presented four memos, three of them were contracts. The first is for the construction of the Senate Building in Osun State University, in Osogbo. This is at a cost of N2, 134,686,307.88, with a completion period of 76 weeks.
“Second one is another Senate Building. This one is at the Federal University, Lokoja and it is at the cost of N1, 607,471,754.77, with a completion period of 50 weeks.
“The third one is a contract for the erection of a radio antenna for the National Commission for Nomadic Education. It is 50 kilowatt AM radio and the contract sum is N336, 745,631.70. The completion period is 14 weeks.
“The last one is a memo for the takeover of David Umahi University of Medical Sciences, Ebonyi, by the federal government. What we brought in the memo is for Council to ratify the agreement that has been entered between the Ebonyi State government and the federal government and then to approve the renaming of the university from David Umahi University of Medical Sciences to David Umahi Federal University of Health Sciences,” he said.
The minister said the council also approved a draft bill for the renaming of the university for transmission to the National Assembly for enactment into an law.
