President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, presided over the Federal Executive Council meeting at the State House, Abuja.
Reports say that yesterday’s meeting is the fourth in 2025 and the 25th in the administration since the inaugural session held on August 28, 2023.
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, Edwin Clark, 97, who passed away on February 17, 2025 and Adenike Oyagbola, who died on February 28, 2025, at the age of 93 years.
According to reports, Oyagbola was Nigeria’s first female minister, who served as the Minister of National Planning from 1979 to 1983, while clark served as federal commissioner for information in 1975 under the administration of late General Murtala Mohammed.
Recall that on Monday March 3 2025, the council approved several memos, including the licensing of 11 new private universities, a 2.5. billion naira satellite surveillance system to curb illegal mining and N734billin naira for the dualisation of the Oyo-Ogbomoso Road in Oyo State, among other projects.