The Federal Government has approved N1,173,630,820,594.89 for the procurement of maintenance materials for the Ibadan-Kano standard gauge and the Port Harcourt-Maiduguri narrow gauge rail line. The amount also includes a printing contract by the National Examination Board for the SLTA 2022 exam. The Minister of Transport, Rotimi Amaechi, and his counterpart at the Ministry of Education, Adamu Adamu, revealed this to State House respondents on Wednesday, shortly after the weekly meeting of the Council.
The Minister of Education, Adamu, said the Council approved N4.97bn for printing contracts ahead of the 2022 senior school certificate examinations organised by NECO.
“Today, the memo we presented from the Ministry of Education is a printing contract by NECO for the Senior School Certificate Examination. The beneficiaries are nine contractors and the amount is N4,965,986,573.89. It will be completed in eight weeks. And it is for the printing of sensitive, non-sensitive equipment and other ancillary equipment for the examination,” he said.
Communications and Digital Economy Minister Dr Isa Pantami said the Council approved the Government’s Second Level Domain National Policy, which mandates all ministries, departments and government agencies to migrate from generic websites and email domains to the second tier. domains under the government’s top-level domains. However, when asked about ASUU’s recent cancellation of its professorship from owerri Federal University of Technology, the minister simply replied, “There was no comment.
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