The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has allocated a sum of N39 billion for various projects in the ministries of Aviation, Works and Housing and other Federal establishments.
Aviation Minister Hadi Sirika announced this to State House Correspondents after the week’s virtual meeting presided over by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo (SAN) at the Presidential Villa in Abuja.
His words,: “Today, Council received three memoranda from Aviation Ministry and they were all approved consequently. Memo Number One is for approval for a contract for the supply and installation of baggage handling system at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos and the total contract sum is N3,615,265,710.69, inclusive of the 7.5 per cent Value Added Tax (VAT), with the completion period of 12 months.
“The contractor is Messrs Gulf of Africa International Limited, the exclusive representative of the original equipment manufacturer. The OEM is Messrs UVS Systems Company, a company that is located in Istanbul, Turkey. The funding was found and appropriated and Council consequently approved it.
“The second memo from us in Aviation is approval for the award of contract for the manufacture, supply, installation and operating training of disabled aircraft recovery system at Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
“This system is to be applied in the event that there is an aircraft that is occupying the runway or any area of operations that we have, so the special equipment will be used to remove that aircraft from that place and free it for our own operations.
“The third memo is approval is approval for the award of contract for direct procurement, installation and commissioning of the total radar coverage modernisation for the Nigeria Airspace Management Agency and this contract is in two parts and the total is 14,428,218.17 Euros, which is equivalent to N28,039,080,799.40.
“The contractors are: Messrs Talas, who had been on the project and supported by Intelligent Transportation Systems Limited and Messrs Softnet Systems Nigeria Limited and the OEMs are Messrs Talas Systems of France and Messrs. HM Global of Germany.”
