Minister of Finance, Mrs Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, NAN reports.
The meeting lasted late into the night.
Ahmed said that the accommodation was important because the NCS, being a para-military organisation, was trying to ensure that its members of staff were kept in barracks.
“The Nigeria Customs got approval today for acquisition of residential accommodation for the staff of the service.
“What the Customs is acquiring is an estate that has a total of 42 flats and the total cost is N152 million per block of six units.
“The approval that we got today is in the total sum of N970.2 million inclusive of VAT.”
Source: Duta