The Federal Executive Council Wednesday approved $2, 810, 574, 064.92, including 7.5 percent tax, for procurement of rolling stocks for the new railway projects’ corridors.
The Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi, said the approval was to procure rolling stocks for the operation and maintenance and rolling stocks operational maintenance equipment for the new railway projects corridors in Ibadan to Kano standard gauge and Port Harcourt to Maiduguri narrow gauge rail lines.
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“Rolling stocks are consumables, they’re rolling stocks. When you say rolling stocks, they are consumables for the maintenance and operation of the railway. The reason for the breakdown which was discussed in the cabinet is because maybe we’ve run out of rolling stocks. And we also run out of stock for the railway. So, with this, we’ll replace all the rolling stock. They’re essentially the consumables we use to maintain the trains, coaches and locomotives.”
While fielding question on the purported attack in Kogi State, the minister said the report he got suggested that people were attacked on their way home and not at the rail station with no indication of any loss of life.
He, however, promised to find out what really happened from the Managing Director of Nigerian Railway Corporation in one week as every station had railway police.
“So, let me not just assume that they’re there because we’ve never been attacked in the station,” he said. The FEC also approved a printing contract worth N4,965,986,573.89 for the National Examination Council (NECO) to conduct the Senior Secondary Certificate Examination (SSCE).
The Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, who announced this, said: “Today, the memo we presented from the Ministry of Education is a printing contract by NECO for the senior school certificate examination and the beneficiaries are nine contractors and the amount is N4,965,986,573.89.
“And it’ll be completed in eight weeks. And it’s for the printing of sensitive, non-sensitive equipment and other ancillary equipment for the examination.”
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Isa Pantami, said the council approved National Policy on the Government Second Level Domain.
He said the national policy had mandated all government ministries, departments and agencies to migrate from generic website and email domain to the second level domain under government top-level domain.
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