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  • Buhari receives 1042-pages achievement compendium at FEC

    President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday received 1042-pages achievement compendium from the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha.

    The presentation was made by Mustapha just before the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting settled down for the business of the day.

    Mustapha disclosed that the compendium was a summary of policies and programmes implemented between 2015 and 2017 as approved by FEC.

    He also recalled that ministries between 10th of January 2018 to 2nd of May, 2018 presented the status of all projects and programmes in their ministries to FEC.

    According to him, the document will serve as first hand information to the President on projects and programmes implemented.

    The document, he said, will also serve as reference point and lends credence to the fact that the administration has fulfilled its campaign promises.

    Stressing that the document came one year after he assumed office as the SGF, he said that the document can be used to evaluate the administration.

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    “It is a valid and vivid proof of the giant strides by this administration.” he said

    He said that the document will be circulated to all the Ministries, Department and Agencies (MDAs).

  • FEC okays $64m contract for Escravos power supply

    The Federal Executive Council ( FEC ) meeting on Wednesday approved $64 million for power supply to Escravos communities.

    This was disclosed by the Minister of State for Petroleum Resources, Ibe Kachikwu, at the end of the FEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    According to him, if executed, it will stop the N18 million spent monthly by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) to provide power to the area.

     

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  • FEC okays digital identity ecosystem roadmap

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the commencement of the implementation of a strategic roadmap for digital identity ecosystem in the country.

    The digital ecosystem is a framework that leverages existing capabilities and infrastructure of distinct government agencies and private sector organisations to carry out enrolment of Nigerians and legal residents into the National Identity Database (NIDB) as well as issuance of digital identity, known as the National Identification Number (NIN) to bring about a credible and robust identity management system.

    The FEC approval will bring into full force the implementation of the provisions of the NIMC Act 23, 2007, which include the enforcement of the mandatory use of the National Identification Number (NIN) by January 1, 2019, and the application of appropriate sanctions and penalties on defaulters as provided under Section 28 of the NIMC Act and Regulations.

    Speaking on the approval, Director-General/CEO of NIMC, Engr. Aliyu Abubakar Aziz, said it was in line with the Federal Government’s efforts to reposition the country’s status in the global economy, towards achieving the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) launched in April 2017.

    According to him, the ERGP was designed “as an omnibus strategy for the government to meet the critical needs of the citizenry in areas such as food security, energy, transport, human capital development, but more critically developing a local digital economy.”

    He expressed gratitude to President Muhammadu Buhari and Vice President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, as well as members of the FEC, National Assembly, the World Bank, the French development agency – AFD, the European Union/EIB and members of the Harmonisation Committee, including industry stakeholders whose expertise and contributions fostered harmonious discussion and created the platform for the development of the roadmap.

    He said all agencies of government and the private sector who are directly or indirectly into the business of data capture and service provision requiring identification of persons should note that: guidelines, processes, procedures for licensing public and private sector organisation will be published soon; enforcement of the mandatory use of the NIN for services and transactions based on the Mandatory Use of the NIN Regulations 2017, will commence; and duly licensed organisations will be required to carry out the front end services of the Identity Ecosystem (data capture, authentication and verification services, etc.) and in compliance with the provisions set out in the Nigeria Biometrics Standard.

     

  • FEC okays N6.01 trillion national health plan

    *FG to banish cholera for five years

    The Federal Executive Council ( FEC ) meeting on Wednesday approved a N6.01 trillion National Strategic Health Development Plan 2.

    The Minister of Health, Isaac Adewole briefed State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    According to him, the new plan covering 2018 to 2022 involves the 36 states of the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory.

    He said that development partners took part in the presentation and approval of the plan.

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    “We are reengineering the health sector.” he stated

    The previous plan 1 ranging from 2010 to 2015, he said, was only able to achieve less than 2 of its 52 targets.

    He also disclosed that the government is working on a plan to banish cholera from Nigeria for 5 years.

  • FG to institute Wreck Insurance Policy soon – MD NPA

    The Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA) says Federal Government will soon institute a Wreck Insurance Policy (WIP) for vessels arriving in Nigerian ports for operational efficiency and navigational safety.

    The NPA Managing Director, Ms Hadiza Usman, made this known in Lagos on Friday while addressing major stakeholders of the nation’s maritime sector at a one-day Quarterly Summit of the Ports Consultative Council (PCC).

    Usman said that the policy would provide avenue for the port management to evacuate abandoned vessels in the entire nation’s territorial water.

    She also said that the Federal Executive Council (FEC) had granted approval for a Private-Public Partnership (PPP) agreement of N72 billion for the ports access roads in Apapa and Tin Can Island.

    On the gridlock on port access roads, she said that only trucks that were housed in the proposed trailer parks would be allowed entry into the port locations soon.

    “The management is to deploy an electronic call-up system that allows access to the ports only when they are needed.

    “The Apapa Wharf road reconstruction project has reached 85 per cent completion.

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    “The road will be fully completed in the next four to six weeks period,” Usman said in a statement.

    She said that the efficient utilisation of inland waterways was key to decongestion of ports access road.

    Usman said that a company, ‘Connect-Rail’, which was engaged by the authority to provide barge evacuation, was currently moving cargoes and several tons of containers between Ikorodu and the terminals through the water.

    “The management of NPA was desirous on how it could use the waterways farther even away from Ikorodu to other locations to ease the congestion of Apapa and Tin Can Island axis,” she said.

    Chief Kunle Folarin, the Chairman of the Council, said that the meeting was strategic and an avenue to examine issues relating to the operations of the port industry, especially as it concerned port operators.

    Folarin said that at the end of the meeting, the council always came up with a blue print that would enhance efficient port operations and management.

    He described Usman in three words of Decisive, Resourceful and Engaging.

    Folarin lauded the NPA boss for addressing issues that affected port operations, adding that the issues were germane for efficient port administration.

  • FEC approves N348.59bn for Akwanga-Gombe road contract

    … N12.104bn for ecological projects

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N348.59 billion for construction of road linking Akwanga though Jos to Gombe.

    The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, disclosed this at the end of the meeting held at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    He said the project covers 420.6kilometers.

    Fashola said the project would be completed in 48 months.

    The Council also approved N12.104 billion for ecological projects across the country.

    The Special Adviser on Media and Publicity to the President, Femi Adesina, said the approval covers 12 states in the country.

    The states are – Anambra, Lagos, Oyo, Akwa Ibom, Adamawa, Bauchi, Edo, Jigawa, Kaduna, Plateau and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

  • Osinbajo presides over FEC meeting

    Acting President Yemi Osinbajo on Wednesday presided over the weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting with many ministers in attendance.

    The meeting started one hour before the usual 11:00 a.m. commencement time.

    In the past, many cabinet members found reasons to stay away from such meetings when President Muhammadu Buhari was out of the country.

    But the story was different on Wednesday with at least 23 ministers present in the Council Chamber when the meeting started at few minutes past 10:00 a.m.

    The Acting President had on Tuesday sacked the Director-General of Department of State Services (DSS), Lawal Daura, over the unauthorized siege on the National Assembly.

  • FEC okays N72.9bn for road reconstruction in Lagos

    The Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday approved N72.9 billion for reconstruction of road linking Creek Road to Tincan Island, Oworonshoki and Toll gate at the Lagos end of Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

    The Minister of Power, Works and Housing, Babatunde Fashola, briefed State House correspondents at the end of FEC meeting presided over by President Muhammadu Buhari.

    He said the project which would be completed in two years covers 27.8 kilometers of five lanes on both sides of the roads.

    According to him, the project excluded Coconut-Mile 2 part of the road that had already been done.

    He said the project would be handled by Dangote Group on a Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) basis.

  • ‘Saraki’s Senate Presidency slowed down government’

    …Says Saraki has been in opposition in the last three years

     

    The Presidency on Wednesday blamed the slow pace of development in the country on the National Assembly led by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki.

    Briefing State House correspondents at the end of Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, the Minister of Information, Lai Mohammed, said that he has operated as being part of the opposition party right from day one as Senate President.

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    He said that Saraki has been in the opposition in the past three years.

    According to him, the series of Federal budget passage delays and delays in confirming appointments sent to the National Assembly have worked against development in the country.

    He said that Saraki’s leaving the All Progressives Congress (APC) was a welcome development.

  • FEC okays N35.613b for roads, bridges 

    THE Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting has approved N35.613 billion for roads and bridges.

    Minister of Power, Works and Housing Babatunde Fashola briefed State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari at the Presidential Villa, Abuja.

    He was with the Minister of Information and Culture Lai Mohammed.

    According to Fashola, N8.9 billion was approved for construction of Ikom bridge and roads in Calabar, Cross River State.

    The roads and 330 meter bridge, which will be completed in 24 months, he said, will create access to the port for trucks to move freely with their containers.

    “This will help to facilitate further activity in the Calabar port and ease the challenges being faced,” he added

    The minister said N11.78 billion was approved for the 37 kilometres of section two of Nguru-Gashua-Biamari road project in Yobe State and N8.6 billion was approved for section one of Ilorin-Igbeti-Kishi road project in Kwara State.

    N5.4 billion was approved for re-award of section one of Bende-Arochukwu-Ohafia road project in Abia State.

    Fashola said: “The previous contractor was unable to satisfactorily execute the project in terms of capacity and equipment. And therefore we terminated and re-awarded the project to a new contractor.” he stated

    He added that N933.7 million was approved for automatic meter reading machine and services for Transmission Company of Nigeria (TCN).

    “This is to facilitate remote meter reading of wholesale meters at the custody and trading points. This is different from remote reading of retail meters used by consumers like you and I.

    “If this is successful implemented, it will eliminate all of the delays. It will also help in dispute resolutions because data can be then produced quicker online,” he said.

    On what he is doing to enforce supply of retail electricity meters to Nigerians, he said: “The control that the Minister of Power before me, before 2013, had over PHCN and all its assets have been taken by the privatisation of the sector.

    “But as a people as a government, we are not helpless. Powers that the minister used to have are now vested in NERC.

    “But the minister has the power to direct NERC to do its job. There are clear statutory and legal  limits to what I can do as minister in order not to send a wrong message to investors,” he said