A presidential aide, Femi Adesina, said President Muhammadu Buhari would complete the ongoing legacy projects in the southeast before the expiration of his tenure in 2023.
Adesina gave the assurance on Thursday, March 5, when some journalists paid him a visit at the statehouse in Abuja.
According to him, several ongoing federal projects in the five south-eastern states are at different stages of completion.
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The presidential spokesperson said the ongoing projects in the southeast were being funded from budgetary allocations, the Sukuk Bond and the presidential infrastructure development fund.
In a related development, the minister of Works and Housing, Raji Fashola said the construction of roads in Nigerian tertiary institutions has become a major policy of the Federal Government under President Buhari.
Fashola said this on Thursday at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka (UNN) while handing over some 2.2km of roads rehabilitated in the university by the Federal Government.
The minister, who was represented by the Federal Controller of Roads in Enugu, Mr Femi Oyekanmi, said that the government had stepped up work in all sectors of the economy.
According to him, Nigeria is steadily reducing the gap of its infrastructural needs by the gradual process of repairs, renewal and construction on highways.
“Currently, there are 43 of such interventions in internal roads within the tertiary institutions across Nigeria and the students are expressing a renewed enthusiasm with regards to attending classes. Some defective roads have been restored to become drivable,” he said.
Fashola said that it was not debatable that quality education would be impacted by the quality of infrastructure and the learning environment.