Ministry Of Works Budgets ₦4bn To Construct Presidential Helipad, Jetty In Lagos

SPOTTED: Ministry of works budgets N4bn to construct presidential helipad, jetty in Lagos

The ministry of works will spend N4 billion to construct a presidential helipad and jetty in Lagos state.

In the 2025 appropriation bill, the federal ministry of works outlined the construction expenditure under its projected budget.

On December 18, President Bola Tinubu presented the sum of N49.7 trillion as the proposed budget for 2025 to the national assembly.

Titled “Budget of Restoration: Securing Peace and Rebuilding Prosperity,” Tinubu said the proposed budget reinforces his administration’s roadmap to secure peace, prosperity, and hope for a greater future for Nigeria.

An analysis of the proposed budget in the “line item” showed that the ministry is expected to spend a total of N1.057,101,549,307 for construction and rehabilitation projects.

Out of the budget earmarked for the projects, N240 million is allocated to public school construction, N724 billion for road construction, and N40.6 billion for infrastructure projects.

On rehabilitation, the ministry plans to spend N340 million on public schools, N289.4 billion on roads, and N2.48 billion on office buildings.

Some of the road projects in the budget include N10 billion for the dualisation of the Kano-Maiduguri road (Section V) linking Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Yobe, and Borno states, N6 billion for the reconstruction of Abuja-Lokoja road and N12 billion for the construction of section one of the Kano-Wudil-Shuarin road.

Other road projects include N34 billion for the dualisation of Kano-Katsina road, N23 billion for the rehabilitation of sections three and four of the Enugu-Port Harcourt road, and N75 billion for phase one of the Kano-Katsina road dualisation.

The budget also allocated N15 billion for rehabilitation of failed sections of the Bauchi-Jigawa state border road, N1 billion for asphalting the David Umahi Federal Medical University road, and N2 billion for the Lekki Axial road counterpart funding.

The ministry of works also allocated N5 billion for judgment debt, N5 billion for legal fees, N280 million for maintaining seven generators and N1.7 billion for office building renovation.

Other allocations include N77.1 billion for public-private partnership (PPP) due diligence and negotiations, N15 billion for an independent engineer for the Abuja-Makurdi road, N10.25 billion for a pilot HDMI corridor engineer, and N10 million for the engagement of media consultants and stakeholders.

Source:- Thecableng