Federal Government Approves $1.9M Rail Line To Niger Republic
President Buhari administration has approved for the construction of a rail line that will link Nigeria to Niger Republic.
Joy Kalu 
The Federal Government of Nigeria has approved the sum of $1.9million for the construction of a rail line that will link Nigeria to the Niger Republic.
The rail line is expected to run from Kano through Katsina and will be linked with the Maradi rail line in the neighbouring West African nation.
This, however, is not the only contract approved for the ministry of transport, a 3.04 billion naira contract was also awarded for the design, manufacture, supply, testing, and commissioning of one railway crane of 150-ton capacity for emergency and recovery of rolling stocks.
The Minister of Transportation, Chibuike Amaechi, made this disclosure on Thursday.
The agreement was reached at the Federal Executive Council, FEC presided over by Buhari.
Amaechi, who addressed State House correspondents, said the sum approved for the project of the rail line linking Kano-Dutse-Katsina-Jibia and to Maradi in the Niger Republic is inclusive of Value Added Tax, according to Daily Post.
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Members of the council also listed out other memos approved by the council including 62 new black maria vehicles, 8 more forensic auditors for the NDDC, and the construction of the Umuahia/Bende/Ohafia road.
The highway in Umuahia is expected to engulf over N12 billion, while, the sum of N3.7 billion was approved as augmentation of the contract for the construction of the petroleum development fund corporate headquarters in Abuja.
In a similar vein, eight more forensic field auditors were added to the NDDC audit while, 1,800 laptops were approved for the customs service schools in Abuja, Lagos, and Kano for the sum of N351.5 million, and N197.8 million was approved for the expansion of the Nigeria Customs Service cash management software.
