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BABATUNDE FASHOLA
Some of the bridges as listed by Fashola include the Second Niger Bridge, the Ikom Bridge, and the Third Mainland Bridge in Lagos.
The Council also approved the rehabilitation of a dam in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja.
The House of Representatives committee on works had earlier expressed its displeasure at the slow pace of work.
The Minister said the Highway Management Initiative was developed with planned private sector engagement.
Nigeria has a deficit of 16 million to 22 million housing units, but this figure has created a division between the SSG to the Federal Government and Minister of Works and Housing.
FG will bear a financial burden of N544.894 billion in 2020 being the cumulative shortfall in electricity tariffs of the 11 DisCos.
Aliko Dangote has lamented the loss his company recorded as a result of the bad state of the Oshodi-Apapa Expressway.
Contractors working on the federal road projects are being owed N306 billion by the Federal Government.
The Minister of Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola has requested for an additional N255.6 billion to rehabilitate and reconstruct roads.
The sum of N19.52 billion has been set aside for the construction of roads in Oyo, Niger, Kano, and the Federal Capital Territory by FG.
The Federal Government and the States Governments are battling over the delay in refunding the money spent by the latter on federal roads.
Minister of Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed has said that most of the bad roads in Nigeria belong to the states.