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Abubakar Abubakar
March 21, 2019
The Federal ExecutiveCouncil has ratified the Safe School Declaration.
Minister of Education,Adamu Adamu said this while briefing State House correspondents after thecouncil’s meeting presided over by President Buhari.
The Safe SchoolsDeclaration is an inter-governmental political commitment that was opened forendorsement by countries at an international conference held in Oslo, Norway,on May 28 to 29, 2015.
According to Adamu,there have been a number of activities on the initiative, but Nigeria is nowcommitted to implementing the Safe School guideline.
The Minister said thatthat council also awarded a contract for the construction of a Faculty of Artsin Adamawa State University for N630 million. He added that the project wouldbe funded by the Tertiary Education Trust Fund, TETFUND.
On his part, the Minister of Environment, Suleiman Hassan, said that FEC approved the award of contract for the remediation of five more lots for the ongoing clean-up in Ogoni land, as a result of the UNEP report that was submitted to the Federal Government.