The Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting has approved N9.6 billion for 11 ecological intervention projects.
Special Adviser on Media and Publicity Femi Adesina briefed State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.
The 11 projects, he said, are located in Lagos, Oyo, Ondo, Cross River, Adamawa, Bauchi, Jigawa, Kaduna, Niger and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
He listed the ecological interventions projects as including Lagos-Jetty and shoreline protection facilities, flood and erosion control in Oyo town, Oyo State, erosion control of flooded areas/road improvement in Owo, Ondo State.
Others are erosion control of flooded areas in Akampa in Cross River and road and stem water defiance in Federal College of Education in Yola, Adamawa.
The intervention projects also included road and bridges at Dutse Saki village in Buguru Local Government in Bauchi, erosion control at Kazaure in Jigawa, intervention at Main Campus Phase II Site at Ahmadu Bello University (ABU), Zaria, Kaduna, Erosion and flood control at Kotangora Local Government Area in Niger State, gully erosion and road improvement at Army Post Service Estate, Kurudu Abuja and erosion and flood control at Asharawa Area Council in Phase II in FCT, Abuja.
He also said FEC approved N267 million for three industrial wastes combine incinerator for National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control (NAFDAC).
“It was approved for NAFDAC at the sum of N267,585,160,” Adesina said.
