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  • [Photos] Buhari presides over FEC meeting

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presides over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) holding in Abuja.

    See photos from the meeting below:

  • {Photo] Shittu distributes Buhari’s re-election caps at FEC meeting

    Despite the controversies surrounding President Muhammadu Buhari’s reelection bid, the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, on Wednesday, attended the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting with a bag full of President Buhari’s re-election campaign caps.

    Shittu distributes Buhari’s re-election caps at FEC meeting

    The caps were packed inside a big bag popularly known as “Ghana-must-go.”

    Shortly before the commencement of the meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the minister handed over the bag to the council’s secretariat staff members.

    The workers are the ones saddled with the responsibility of distributing council documents and other items to members.

    They were meant to distribute the caps to ministers and other council members in attendance.

    Shittu, who was wearing a suit, wore his own blue cap.

    The cap has the logo of the ruling All Progressives Congress and the inscription, “Continuity ’19: Muhammadu Buhari/Osinbajo” on it.

    Photojournalists ensured that they captured him while exchanging pleasantries with some of his colleagues.

    Recall that Shittu had, on Saturday, inaugurated the South West Zonal Office of Buhari/Osinbajo Campaign Organisation in Ibadan, Oyo State.

    The caps he distributed at the council meeting were believed to be the souvenirs he produced for the Ibadan event.

    The distribution of the caps at the meeting came barely 24 hours after former President Olusegun Obasanjo advised Buhari not to seek re-election in 2019.

     

  • JUST IN: Buhari extends FEC meeting till Thursday

    The Senior Special Assistant to the President on Media and Publicity, Malam Garba Shehu, says the extra-ordinary meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari, will continue on Thursday.

    Shehu, who made this known in Abuja on Wednesday, said the meeting was extended to Thursday to enable the council deliberate and take decisions on pending issues.

    According to him, the Federal Government plans to make Nigerians happy by providing tangible and meaningful projects to uplift their quality of life.

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that President Buhari had sworn-in the remaining seven permanent secretaries out of the 22 appointed earlier in the year.

    The inauguration preceded the Council’s meeting and had the cabinet members and serving permanent secretaries as well as some guests of the new officials in attendance.

    The President did not deliver any inauguration address after the signing of the inauguration register, as the FEC meeting progressed afterwards.

    Those sworn in are: Mr. Mustapha Suleiman (Kano); Mr Adekunle Adeyemi (Oyo); Mrs. Comfort Ekaro (Rivers); Mr. Adebayo Akpata (Ekiti).

    Others are Dr. Abdulkadir Muazu (Kaduna); Mr. Marcelinus Osuji (Imo) and Mr. Bitrus Nabasu (Plateau).

    The News Agency of Nigeria reports that 15 of the newly appointed permanent secretaries had taken their oath of office in August.

     

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  • Mainagate: Dambazzau shuns FEC meeting, avoids Buhari

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Thursday presided over the meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) in the Presidential Villa.

    The meeting, which was shifted from Wednesday, started at about 11 a.m.

    It is being attended by the Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, acting Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Dr Habiba Lawal, and cabinet ministers.

    It was gathered that the 2018 budget was one of the agendas deliberated upon at the meeting.

    Meanwhile, Minister of Interior, Lt.-Gen Abdulrahman Dambazau (rtd), was conspicuously absent from the meeting.

    Dambazau was one of the cabinet members linked to the recall and posting of the former Chairman of the Presidential Task Force on Pension Reforms, Abdulrasheed Maina.

    The Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Winifred Oyo-Ita, were, however, present.

    Malami, who arrived the Council chamber around 10:53 a.m., had discussions with the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, and Minister of Education, Adamu Adamu, before the rendition of the National Anthem.

    Oyo-Ita arrived the Council chamber around 10:54 a.m.

  • 2018 Budget: Buhari postpones FEC meeting to Thursday

    The weekly meeting of the Federal Executive Council, FEC, expected to hold on Wednesday (today) has been postponed to Thursday (tomorrow) to allow for completion of preparation of the 2018 budget.

    This was revealed in a tweet by the official handle of Office of the President @NGRPresident on Wednesday.

    The Presidency reiterated its commitment to return the annual budget calendar to January – December, hence its decision to work towards passing the 2018 budget before the end of 2017.

    “Federal Executive Council (FEC) Meeting will hold tomorrow, Thursday, Oct 26. Agenda is #Budget2018, which is currently being finalized.”

    “We’re on course with plans to have passed into law before the end of 2017, and restore the budget calendar to Jan—Dec”

    The meeting, as usual, will be presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari who just arrived from a working visit to Niger.

    The Minister of Budget and Planning, Udo Udoma, had in August announced that the 2018 budget estimates will be submitted to the National Assembly for consideration at the end of October.

  • Buhari presides over first FEC meeting since return from London

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting for the first time since his return from London on August 19 after spending about 103 days treating an undisclosed ailment.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that the President last week canceled the FEC meeting on accounts that he had other important official matters to attend to.

    Presidential spokesman, Femi Adesina later told newsmen that the president was not mandated by law to hold the FEC meeting weekly especially when there are other urgent matters of national importance to attend to.

    TheNewsGuru.com reports that at the commencement of today’s FEC meeting, ministers and other top government officials present offered special prayers and also thanked God for sparing the president’s life.

    The prayer session was led by the Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, and the Minister of Labour and Employment, Dr Chris Ngige.

    The ministers thanked God for bringing the President back “in peace not in pieces’’.

    While expressing hope that the President’s return would reinvigorate the cabinet and the nation’s economy, the ministers prayed for all Nigerians and for the country.

     

     

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  • FIBA championship: Buhari felicitates with D’Tigress, to receive them in Abuja before FEC Meeting

    President Mohammadu Buhari will on Wednesday, before the Federal Executive Council (FEC), receive the victorious D’Tigress, the Minister of Youth and Sports Barrister Solomon Dalung hinted on Tuesday.

    Dalung, who alongside top members of the sport ministry hosted the new African queens on Tuesday, dropped the hint that the president will meet with the Afrobasket winners before attending the weekly FEC meeting.

    DTigress won all their matches at the competition and also qualified for the World Cup in Spain next year.

    The Minister of sport Dalung attributed the recent successes recorded in basketball and wrestling to the ongoing sports reforms by the ministry.

    The Minister commended the players and wrestlers for truly exemplifying the true Nigerian spirit which always thrives in the face of adversity.

    Dalung praised the team for making Nigeria proud adding that their victory was not by chance but as a result of well- articulated programs by the NBBF and NWF boards.

    “We congratulate DTigress, the technical crew and the entire management of the Nigeria Basketball Federation (NBBF) for winning the 2017 FIBA Women’s Afrobasket trophy.

    “You not only broke a 12 year old draught, but also won a ticket to the World Cup next year. This cannot be ascribed to luck, but weeks of hard work, planning and strategising by the board, technical crew and the players. We also applaud the wrestlers for winning silver at the World championship.

    “We are aware of the fact that the road to becoming the African Champions and booking a ticket to the World Cup was never easy. The federal government salutes these brave girls who have written Nigeria’s name on the global map once again after 12 years.”

     

  • No law says Buhari should hold FEC meeting every week – Adesina

    Special adviser to President Muhammadu Buhari on media and publicity, Mr. Femi Adesina, yesterday said there is nowhere in the Nigerian law which states that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting must be held every week.

    Recall TheNewsGuru.com had earlier published that Buhari cancelled the FEC meeting he was supposed to hold for this week .

    The FEC meeting cancellation generated heavy criticisms of the presidency and was also debated upon by the general public.

    Buhari’s spokesman, Adesina, however, defended his superior during a Channels TV programme, Politics Today, he said the president’s decision to cancel FEC meeting should not be a cause for concern.

    “There is no law that says the federal executive council meeting should hold every week. There is no law that says it must be weekly. Under a past administration, it used to hold once every two weeks,” he said.

    “So, there is no law that says it should hold every Wednesday. It depends on what you have on the agenda to discuss. The president is the chairman of that meeting. So, he has the discretion to hold or not to hold (the meeting).

    “The fact that FEC did not hold in one week does not mean anything significant because the president has the discretion to hold or not to hold FEC (meetings).”

    Adesina also dismissed rumours that the president had not recovered, saying though Buhari is working from his residence, the president is strong enough to perform his duties.

    Asked by Seun Okinbaloye, the anchor of the TV show if the cancellation of Wednesday’s meeting meant that FEC would no longer be meeting weekly, he responded: “That is not correct. It did not hold every week; when this administration began, it did not hold every week. And right from then, it had been understood that the FEC would hold as often as there are things to discuss.”

  • BREAKING: Buhari cancels FEC meeting

    The weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) will not hold Wednesday, according to President Muhammadu Buhari’s spokesperson, Femi Adesina.

    Mr. Adesina, in a statement, said Mr. Buhari will rather receive the report of the investigation committee into the allegations against the suspended Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, and the Director-General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), Ayodele Oke.

    The committee is headed by Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo and it will submit its report to the president in his office at noon, Mr. Adesina said.

    Mr. Buhari returned to Nigeria on Saturday after spending 103 days in London for medical treatment.

    The president had constituted the panel to investigate the corruption allegation levelled against the suspended SGF by the Nigerian senate and that against Mr. Oke by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission.

    He was to receive the report on May 8 but his health condition deteriorated, forcing him to return to London on May 7.

  • Photos: Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting

    Photos: Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting

    The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, on Wednesday presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.

    The meeting started at about 10am at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa, Abuja.