FG Approves N32bn For Completion Of National Library Headquarters In Abuja

The federal executive council (FEC) has approved N32.4 billion for the “completion” of the national library headquarters in Abuja.

The minister of state for education, Goodluck Opia spoke on Wednesday while briefing journalists after the FEC meeting at the presidential villa.

The national library headquarters has been under construction since 2006 with the project gulping billions of naira.

Opia said the “revised” amount for the completion of the project which is about N32.4 billion has been approved by FEC.

“Federal ministry of education presented a memo for approval for the revised estimated total cost of the contract for the completion of the construction of the National Library of Nigeria headquarters building complex in Abuja. The revised estimated cost is N32.4 billion,” he said.

“The scope of work for the project includes the construction of a concrete structure consisting of 11 floors, two basement floors and eight upper floors for housing bookstore, locker rooms, bindery, printing press, restaurants, clinic, creches changing rooms exhibition hall, auditorium, cataloguing, general reference areas, legal deposits, office for the administration book stacks, reading areas, electronic data processing centre, library research and training centre public convenience and underground car pack furnishing as well as perimeter fencing, gates and gatehouses, internal roads, electrical and mechanical services, and other external works.”