The Federal Government has approved the sum of N1.496 billion for the building of a mausoleum in honour of the country’s first President, late Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe.

The mausoleum which will be located in Onitsha, Anambra State and is expected to be completed in 13 months.

The decision was reached Wednesday at the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) presided over by President Goodluck Jonathan.

The minister of information represented by the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Dr. Reuben Abati, alongside the Minister of Housing and Urban Development, Ms. Ama Pepple and the Minister of Mines and Steel, Mohammed Sada, said that the proposal for the mausoleum has been in the pipeline since 2006.

They concurred that the President promised to re-visit the matter during his visit to Anambra State.

According to Abati, “the President during his visit to Anambra State had given his word that the issue will be revisited and that was done today because the country owes it to posterity and the memory of the great Zik to ensure that the mausoleum is built and there is concrete assurance by the ministry of Lands and Housing that this time around, the Mausoleum will be completed.

Pepple explained the award of the contract saying the “contract was originally under the Presidency but it was stalled and had to be cancelled three times. But in 2010 it was transferred to the Ministry of Lands and Housing Development when it became a full-fledged ministry.”

Pepple, who said the mausoleum which was a national project that had to be completed before the country’s centenary celebration in 2014, also said the funds for the project had been split into the 2012 and 2013 budget.

“In this year’s budget, we have N530million in the 2012 budget with which we are going to start off the project with and we have also put N1billion in the budget for next year and if that is given to us we should be able to complete it within the time stipulated.


“So we are very hopeful that we will get the needed funds and the ministry is quiet ready to ensure that we get value for money for the job that we are giving out,” she said.

On the approved roadmap of the mining sector, Sade said the document was to awaken “ourselves to the various governmental policies to work on and targets to achieve.”

He said government had also given incentives to encourage investors in the sector, stating that all mining equipments brought into the country will be duty free.


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when i saw mausoleum, i thought it is a road that will cover over 1000km until i checked the meaning.
Another way of wasting resources that are to be used for useful things.

What a wasteful government we have today in Nigeria.

misplaced priorities, waste of valuable resources.

Azikiwe Jonathan and Nnamdi Azikiwe....1.5billion for a mausoleum? odikwa egwu.

jaymichael: misplaced priorities, waste of valuable resources.

How can it be wasteful? Is it not better than keeping it in a Swiss private bank account?
Finally, they are taking care of their leader's memory.

Eziachi:
How can it be wasteful? Is it not better than keeping it in a Swiss private bank account?
Finally, they are taking care of their leader's memory.

are they planning to make it a tourist attraction or what ?

Eziachi:
How can it be wasteful? Is it not better than keeping it in a Swiss private bank account?
Finally, they are taking care of their leader's memory.

both wastefulness and keeping in Swiss account are all bad anyway.
Must we always build our choice on two bad options?
There are many correct projects to be done with the national resources that will benefit the large percentage of the populace if not all.
A devil is not better than satan cos both have no good things to offer.

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Rt Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first President of this country. He deserves such honor from Nigeria. Besides it going to be a tourist center for both Nigerian and International visitors, which will in turn churn out millions of dollars per annun for the country. Great Zik was the greatest Pan-Africanist.

1.5 gini? To waste at this crucial time for something they can't maintain. FG is sick,it is loophole for stealing.

great Zik of Africa

Tolexander: both wastefulness and keeping in Swiss account are all bad anyway.
Must we always build our choice on two bad options?
There are many correct projects to be done with the national resources that will benefit the large percentage of the populace if not all.
A devil is not better than satan cos both have no good things to offer.

Since Nigeria is not known for any sort of financial prudence, then some waste must be better than other wastes .
At least all the bricklayers, carpenters, material suppliers, welders will all benefit one way or the other.
Better than swiss bank account. You get my drift?
Would you rather want a con man to take your cash or your happy spending wife to blow it on a new wardrobe? Best of the two evils.

No no no no no no no not wen d poor abounds

rubbish

chino24: Rt Hon. Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe is the first President of this country. He deserves such honor from Nigeria. Besides it going to be a tourist center for both Nigerian and International visitors, which will in turn churn out millions of dollars per annun for the country. Great Zik was the greatest Pan-Africanist.

If this is your reason of wasting 1.5billion naira on a mausoleum, then am afraid government is not ready to fight corruption.

What all these rubbish today u hear 6billion for farmers phone tomorrow u hear 1.5billion for another thing. Really jonathan is confused.

Tolexander: both wastefulness and keeping in Swiss account are all bad anyway.
Must we always build our choice on two bad options?
There are many correct projects to be done with the national resources that will benefit the large percentage of the populace if not all.
A devil is not better than satan cos both have no good things to offer.

Eziachi:
Since Nigeria is not known for any sort of financial prudence, then some waste must be better than other wastes .
At least all the bricklayers, carpenters, material suppliers, welders will all benefit one way or the other.
Better than swiss bank account. You get my drift?
Would you rather want a con man to take your cash or your happy spending wife to blow it on a new wardrobe? Best of the two evils.

Guy you have a point here, at least all those on colored bold letters will have something to take home for their families which they won't get if the money went to swiss account.

Eziachi:
Since Nigeria is not known for any sort of financial prudence, then some waste must be better than other wastes .
At least all the bricklayers, carpenters, material suppliers, welders will all benefit one way or the other.
Better than swiss bank account. You get my drift?
Would you rather want a con man to take your cash or your happy spending wife to blow it on a new wardrobe? Best of the two evils.

i understand man! Nigeria is not known for any good thing except for the opposite. But does that now mean we should continue to encourage one evil just that it is fair and better than the other not taking into consideration that an evil is an evil.
Let us not use a wrong to correct a wrong cos two wrongs dont make a right!
Remember the fallacy of false dichotomy!

Tolexander: i understand man! Nigeria is not known for any good thing except for the opposite. But does that now mean we should continue to encourage one evil just that it is fair and better than the other not taking into consideration that an evil is an evil.
Let us not use a wrong to correct a wrong cos two wrongs dont make a right!
Remember the fallacy of false dichotomy!

I am afraid, Nigeria was created and programmed not to work.
Things will continue this way until everybody answer their ancestor's name, then go home and fix, everyone his problem, with no one to blame anymore.
That why I am up for any waste now that common people some how benefit from, irrespective of how small the benefits are.

failed leaders wasting public funds on other failed leaders. useless bunch....

Eko Ile: failed leaders wasting public funds on other failed leaders. useless bunch....

He could have use the cash to get himself few new presidential toys (jets) to top up the one he already commanding or even increase his feeding budget with it in the next budget.
So you should be grateful he is wasting on the man that fought for your independent to steal from the public with guns..

Eko Ile: failed leaders wasting public funds on other failed leaders. useless bunch....

great Zik of Africa was the first president of Nigeria, he was the foremost Nationalist that come out of African soil.

It would have been wow if it had been done for your amala infested juju local champion rulers?

Fool grow up and take the advice of musiwa.

Tolexander: both wastefulness and keeping in Swiss account are all bad anyway.
Must we always build our choice on two bad options?
There are many correct projects to be done with the national resources that will benefit the large percentage of the populace if not all.
A devil is not better than satan cos both have no good things to offer.

LOL @Emboldened......... Thought the money was wasteful too, and still not convinced otherwise. Except there is a plan to recoup it through some form of Tourism like the Lincoln Memorial et al

Eko Ile: failed leaders wasting public funds on other failed leaders. useless bunch....

Above post is a case of failure in life talking about imaginary failed leaders.

Eziachi:
I am afraid, Nigeria was created and programmed not to work.
Things will continue this way until everybody answer their ancestor's name, then go home and fix, everyone his problem, with no one to blame anymore.
That why I am up for any waste now that common people some how benefit from, irrespective of how small the benefits are.

no human society is created to succeed due to many individual differences, even twins seldom get a disagreement but understanding is the solution.
Each individual answering his father's name is not even the 'final' solution. Just like the issue of two brothers that decided to fight their uncle cos he selfishly claimed their father's land. When the land was retrieved, the twins then had to face a bigger task of how the land would be shared.
If the nation is broken along its tribal planes, does that mean each tribe won't have to face it's internal differences? E.g somalia which is still considered to have an homogeneous society

Dede1:

Above post is a case of failure in life talking about imaginary failed leaders.

can you please answer my question sir?
Is nigeria a failed state or not?

chino24:

great Zik of Africa was the first president of Nigeria, he was the foremost Nationalist that come out of African soil.

It would have been wow if it had been done for your amala infested juju local champion rulers?

Fool grow up and take the advice of musiwa.

Please shut up. You're better off reciting this dumb rubbish to Olodo people and your kind.

See how they are wasting taxpayers' money to build nonsense.can't the eastern governors donate #300 million each for the project since Nnamdi hailed from the east ?

I have a better suggestion for y'all.uproot his carcass,put it in a mummy and place in it Onitsha market for public viewing. Da'alu

Dede1:

Above post is a case of failure in life talking about imaginary failed leaders.

You should know now that I stopped taking your old azzz seriously. Failed descendant of a failed leader.

Another chop-I-chop project by President Jonadunce and his FEC aka Federal Executive Criminals.

N1.5 billion, going, going, gone!!!

Eziachi:
He could have use the cash to get himself few new presidential toys (jets) to top up the one he already commanding or even increase his feeding budget with it in the next budget.
So you should be grateful he is wasting on the man that fought for your independent to steal from the p

ublic with guns..

And your irrelevant rubbish changed the fact that he was a failed leader. I really was not expecting that lazy thinking and analogy from you, you've been spending too much time hanging around NL Dullards.

Redeem yourself by listing why he wasn't a failed leader. That's where you should have started from.