Minister of Education, Malam Adamu Adamu, said the abandoned National Library building in Abuja, would be completed at the cost of N50 billion.

He said at a media conference that the Buhari administration would not abandon any project initiated by any past administration that was adjudged to be in public interest and that efforts were on to complete the National Library Headquarters.

“You may have been aware that the project was awarded in 2006 at a total cost of N8 billion. By 2013, the project cost was reviewed upward to N18 billion. Work was however stopped by the end of 2013 due to poor funding,” he said.

He said when this administration came into power, the contractor submitted a new bill of N78 billion to complete the project and a committee was set up to evaluate the project which later submitted a bill of N50 billion.

“We have forwarded the report to the Bureau of Public Procurement (BPP) for further appraisal. The recommendation of the BPP will be forwarded to the Federal Executive Council (FEC) for consideration. While we await these processes to be completed, we are pursuing alternative sources of funding especially from special intervention funding windows,” he said.
He said the National Library of Nigeria (NLN) was required by its enabling Act to have presence in all states of the federation and to fulfil the mandate. He said contracts for the renovation of the Lagos, Benue, Nasarawa, Imo, Adamawa, and Plateau branches have been awarded while others will come on stream in 2020.

He said new branches were to be established in Delta, Anambra, Ekiti, Kebbi, Kogi and Jigawa states.

CodeTemplar:
Is this for one location or spread accross 36 states? If one location, then this is why I will always commend Oyedepo. Give him N50bn and he will give you nothing less than 25 world class libraries fully stocked with 2019 books, a complimentary ICT system for management and some Air-conditioned reading areas.
Some folks who can't access the overpriced library build with their taxes they forcefully paid will still condemn private entities blindly.

bajeen:



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/national-library-building-to-be-completed-at-n50bn.html

bajeen:



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/national-library-building-to-be-completed-at-n50bn.html

bajeen:



https://www.dailytrust.com.ng/national-library-building-to-be-completed-at-n50bn.html

CodeTemplar:
Is this for one location or spread accross 36 states? If one location, then this is why I will always commend Oyedepo. Give him N50bn and he will give you nothing less than 25 world class libraries fully stocked with 2019 books, a complimentary ICT system for management and some Air-conditioned reading areas.
Some folks who can't access the overpriced library build with their taxes they forcefully paid will still condemn private entities blindly.

HigherEd:

People that are crazy... The whole 100,000 fully air conditioned covered stadium (which is bigger than uyo stadium) oyedepo wants to build is not even up to 50Billion. I know they would use less than 1/3 of that money.

iceboy4752:
Next is the abandoned PDP National Secretariat.