Nigeria, Oct. 27 -- The federal government will create special funding for the Gombe-Biu road, the permanent secretary, Federal Ministry of Works and Housing, Hassan Musa, has disclosed.

Mr Musa made this known when members of the House of Representatives Committee on Appropriations led by its Chairman Muktar Betara (APC, Borno), paid a working visit to the ministry in Abuja on Monday.

Other members of the committee on the visit were Ahmed Jaha (APC, Borno) and Kabir Tukura (APC, Kebbi).

PREMIUM TIMES had reported that the Chairman of the House Committee on Works, Kabir Abubakar (APC, Kano), during the debate on the 2022 budget, decried the allocation to the construction and rehabilitation of roads.

The federal government has been usi...