Fifty days after its inaugural meeting, Tinubu presides over second FEC meeting, induct 3 new ministers

Nearly 50 days after the inaugural meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC), President Bola Ahmed Tinubu,
on Monday held a FEC meeting and also inaugurated three additional ministers, swelling the number to 48.

Persecond News reports that the brief induction ceremony took place at the hallowed Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa, Abuja, before the commencement of the second FEC meeting of the Tinubu administration.

The Senate had screened and approved the nomination of three additional ministers sent in President Tinubu some weeks ago.

Two of the newly inducted cabinet members are to take charge of the newly created Ministry of Youths while the third, from Kaduna State, is a replacement to former Kaduna Gov. Nasir el-Rufai.

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The Ministry of Youth was excised from the Ministry of Youths and Sports Development.

Persecondnews also recalls that the Council has not convened since its inaugural meeting on August 28, a week after Tinubu inaugurated 45 ministers.

The Council also observed a minute silence for a former minister, the late Mobolaji Ajose-Adeogun, former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.

Ajose-Adeogun, who died on July 1 at the age of 96, was appointed the FCT Minister in 1976 by the Murtala Mohammed military administration and served in that capacity until 1979.

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