Achebe airport airfield lighting to cost N490m

The government also awarded the contract for the development of a masterplan for heritage sites at N125.8 million, while the College of Nursing Sciences, Isuofia, would gulp N150.69 million for property clearing and fencing extension

Update: 2024-11-14 08:59 GMT

The Anambra government has approved N489.716 million for airport lighting at Chinua Achebe International Airport, Awka.

The Anambra State Executive Council (ANSEC) awarded the contract to facilitate night landings at the airport.

This is contained in a statement by Dr Law Mefor, the state’s Commissioner for Information, on Wednesday in Awka.

He said other decisions reached by ANSEC included enhanced security for life and property, with approval for kinetic and non-kinetic approaches.

The government also awarded the contract for the development of a masterplan for heritage sites at N125.8 million, while the College of Nursing Sciences, Isuofia, would gulp N150.69 million for property clearing and fencing extension.

Mefor said the reconstruction of the Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu University Teaching Hospital entrance gate was awarded at N112.7 million.

According to him, N42.8 million will also be spent installing a 200 KVA/11KV transformer for the Institution’s College of Medicine.

He said the power supply to Anambra Mix-Use Industrial City (AMIC), Ogboji, will be enhanced with a 33 KV line from the Oji-River substation for N1.74 billion with a dedicated injection substation for N1.24 billion.

The commissioner added that the state government also approved N76.2 million for the renovation of the Naval Base at Iyiowa Odekpe, to be completed in two months.

N715.12 million will be spent installing ultraviolet-resistant chairs at the Alex Ekwueme Square, Awka.

The Anambra State Solution Data Platform will get N97.1 million. 

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