The Federal Executive Council on Wednesday approved a contract for the rehabilitation of the Ikorodu - Sagamu Road which links Lagos State to Ogun State .
The Minister of Information and Culture , Alhaji Lai Mohammed, disclosed this to State House correspondents at the end of the council ’s meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja .

Mohammed put the cost of the rehabilitation contract at N 2 bn.
He said the rehabilitation would reduce accidents and travel time on the road .
The minister said , “ The significance of the award of this contract is that it will reduce road accidents and loss of lives. Of course, it will reduce travel time and operating cost for transporters and commuters, and more importantly, it will enhance the movement of petroleum and agricultural products and also facilitate other commercial activities .

“ If you remember, Mosinmi , the Nigeria National Petroleum Corporation depot , is along that line. ”
The Minister of State for Aviation , Hadi Sirika , also said the council approved N4 .233 bn for automated fire and smoke aircraft training simulator for airports.
Sirika said, “ The purpose of that memo was to award a contract for the design , manufacture and installation of fully automated fire and smoke aircraft training simulator. The total contract sum is N4 , 233 .756 .00.
“ The council graciously considered and approved the contract . This fire - fighting equipment is extremely very important because when we came into government in 2015, l found myself approving several hundreds of thousands of dollars for our fire - fighters to go to Cameroon to get trained for proficiency in fire - fighting and come back to fight fire in Nigeria with 30 airports .
“ We cannot continue to depend on a neighbouring country to learn how to fight fire . So, we conceptualised and developed the project .