The Federal Ministry of Works has budgeted N4 billion to construct a presidential helipad and a jetty in Lagos.

Out of the N49.7 trillion proposed budget for 2025, presented by President Bola Tinubu on December 18, the Ministry will make use of N1.057,101,549,307 for construction and rehabilitation projects.

The Ministry plans to spend N340 million on public schools, N289.4 billion on roads, and N2.48 billion on office buildings.

The Ministry will spend N10 billion for the dualisation of the Kano-Maiduguri road (Section V) linking Kano, Jigawa, Bauchi, Yobe, and Borno states, N6 billion for the reconstruction of Abuja-Lokoja road and N12 billion for the construction of section one of the Kano-Wudil-Shuarin road.

Also, N34 billion will be spent for the dualisation of Kano-Katsina road, N23 billion for the rehabilitation of sections three and four of the Enugu-Port Harcourt road, and N75 billion for phase one of the Kano-Katsina road dualisation.

The budget also allocated N1 billion for asphalting the David Umahi Federal Medical University road, and N2 billion for the Lekki Axial road counterpart funding. The Bauchi-Jigawa state border road gets N15 billion for rehabilitation of failed sections.

The Ministry of works also allocated N5 billion for judgment debt, N5 billion for legal fees, N280 million for maintaining seven generators and N1.7 billion for office building renovation.

Other allocations include N77.1 billion for public-private partnership (PPP) due diligence and negotiations, N15 billion for an independent engineer for the Abuja-Makurdi road, N10.25 billion for a pilot HDMI corridor engineer, and N10 million for the engagement of media consultants and stakeholders.