Tinubu Presides Over FEC Meeting, Honours Clark, Oyagbola

Tinubu presides over FEC meeting, honours Clark, Oyagbola

President Bola Tinubu, on Wednesday, presided over the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja.

Wednesday’s meeting is the fourth in 2025 and the 25th in the administration since the inaugural session held on August 28, 2023.

The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, on Monday revealed that the council members will converge again on Wednesday for another meeting.

Before the meeting, the Permanent Secretary of the Cabinet Affairs Office, Dr. Emanso Okop, who represented the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, led the members to observe a minute’s silence in honour of two departed former ministers.

They are Chief Edwin Clark, 97, who passed away on February 17, 2025 and Mrs Adenike Oyagbola, who died on February 28, 2025, at the age of 93 years.

Oyagbola was Nigeria’s first female minister, who served as the Minister of National Planning from 1979 to 1983.

Clark served as federal commissioner for information in 1975 under the administration of late General Murtala Mohammed.

On Monday, the council approved several memos, including the licensing of 11 new private universities, a 2.5bn naira satellite surveillance system to curb illegal mining and N734bn for the dualisation of the Oyo-Ogbomoso Road in Oyo State, among other projects.