The federal government has allocated N6,812,285,653 for the execution of vital projects of the Office of the Surveyor General of the Federation, OSGOF, in the draft 2017 budget.
Of this amount, establishment, research and observation of geodetic control and the scale of the country got the lion share of N3 billion.
Other details showed that N1.2 billion was allocated for research and delineation of the international borders of Nigeria.
Others are upgrading and maintenance of high-performance servers, cloud backup, research, policy and relocation of data centers, which received N30M, makes data management software base for e-colleaction, IPSAS, GIFMIS, Ippis and others return, N2M and procurement of IT equipment , N2M.
International Earth science and remote sensing and summit got N13m, while N15m was allocated to build capacity to deal with and administer international border issues and N20m for international commitments to research and mapping.
Others include the establishment of geospatial information sales warehouse at the headquarters OSGOF, N2M, geo-hazards, earth tremors, surveys, N30M, e-books and computerization, ID card maker, N3M, design and installation of digital Minna date of invoice Committee, N50m and the establishment of two continuous operation reference station, N128.9m.
According to the budget proposal, remote sensed data towns and villages for urban analysis Lagos, Lagos, Daura, Kano and FCT, etc., is to gulp N30M, large-scale tapographical and cadastral maps, N25m, mapping geospatial data for the development and good governance, ensure statistical data isolation, N25m.
In addition, the purchase of two project vehicles, N20m, acquisition and fencing in the six geo-political zones, N90m, acquisition and fencing OSGOF based land FCT N50m, making annual newsletter, N1M and payment of 2016 arrears, N20m.
The survey and demarcation of Nigeria's international land borders, Nigeria / Cameroon, Nigeria / Benin and Nigeria / Niger N80m, research and demarcation of 10 interstate borders N50m, mapping larger Awgu, Enugu State, N20m.
Research and observation of geodetic control, trigonometric station and scale of the country got N100m, harvest, process and analysis of tidal data to determine national vertical geodetic datum received N20, while Dam monitoring basic data received N20m.
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