President Bola Tinubu has sworn in eight Federal Permanent Secretaries and eighteen federal commissioners for the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission.
Shortly before the first Federal Executive Council meeting of the year began at State House in Abuja, the eight permanent secretaries took the oath of office.
The State House Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Abiodun Oladunjoye, gave the opening remarks.
The permanent secretaries include: Ogbodo Nnam (Enugu State), Onwusoro Ihemelandu (Abia State), Ndiomu Philip (Bayelsa State), and Anuma Nlia (Ebonyi State).
Others are Usman Aminu (Kebbi State), Oyekunle Nwakuso (Rivers State), Nadungu Gagare (Kaduna State) and Kalba Usman (Gombe State).
Additionally, 18 Federal Commissioners of the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission were sworn in by the President.
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Last August, Tinubu appointed 21 federal commissioners to the Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission, pending their confirmation by the Senate.
The new commissioners were Linda Oti (Abia), Akpan Effiong (Akwa Ibom), Enefe Ekene (Anambra), Prof. Steve Ugba (Benue), Chief Eyonsa (Cross-River), Aruviere Egharhevwe (Delta), Nduka Awuregu (Ebonyi), Victor Eboigbe (Edo), Wumi Ogunlola (Ekiti), Ozo Obodougo (Enugu) and Kabir Mashi (Katsina).
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Others are Adamu Fanda (Kano), Dr. Kunle Wright (Lagos), Aliyu Abdulkadir (Nasarawa), Bako Shetima (Niger), Samuel Durojaye (Ogun), Nathaniel Adejutelegan (Ondo), Saad Ibrahim (Plateau), Modu-Aji Juluri (Yobe), Bello Garba (Zamfara) and Mohammed Usman (Gombe).
This also includes a Commissioner for the Federal Character Commission, Kayode Oladele, and a member of the National Population Commission, Victoria Iyatan.
Council members also observed a minute’s silence in honour of a former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Lt. Gen Jeremiah Useni, who passed away on January 23, 2025.
The Council is resuming its meeting after a six-week recess.
On Monday, December 16, 2024, the Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, announced that the FEC would take a recess from December 18, 2024, to January 6, 2025.
