President Muhammadu Buhari is presiding over this week’s virtual Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, just as he inaugurated the 12 new Permanent Secretaries for the federal civil service.
The today’s (Wednesday) FEC meeting is taking place at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja with a few ministers present, while many others joined virtually.
Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, SGF, Boss Mustapha, the Chief of Staff to the President, Prof. Ibrahim Gambari, and the National Security Adviser, NSA, Babagana Monguno witnessed the event.
Ministers physically present at the council meeting were Niger Delta, Godswill Akpabio, the Attorney-General and Minister for Justice, Abubakar Malami, Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, Finance, Budget and National Planning, Zainab Ahmed.
Others were the Ministers of the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and Water Resources, Muhammad Bello and Suleiman Adamu, respectively.
The Head of Service of the Federation, Yemi-Esan, and other cabinet members joined the meeting online from their respective offices in Abuja.
The new permanent secretaries, who were appointed in June, include Belgore Lamido -Kwara; Akinlade Oluwatoyin -Kogi; Ekpa Akpabio -Cross River; Alkali Nura -Kano; Ardo Kumo -Gombe and Anyanwutaku lfeoma -Anambra.
Others are Udoh Omokunmi -Oyo; Hussaini Babangida -Jigawa; Mohammed Ganda -Sokoto; Mahmuda Mamman -Yobe; Meribole Chukwuemeka -Abia and Tarfa Peter -Adamawa.
The President also inaugurated commissioners for Federal Civil Service Commission, Idahagbon Henry and Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, Usman Hassan.
