FEC Dissolves Niger Delta, Sports Ministries, Merges Tourism with Culture Ministry

President Bola Tinubu has scrapped Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of sports development. 

The Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, in his verified X page on Tuesday stated that there will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West Development Commission, North East Development Commission.

He said the National Sports Commission will take over the role of the Ministry of Sports. 

The FEC also approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy. 

The decisions, Onanuga said, were taken today at the meeting of Federal Executive Council in Abuja.

President Tinubu is at the moment presiding over the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting at the State House, Abuja.

The meeting taking place at the Council Chambers is the first to be held by the President since he returned from a two-week working vacation last weekend. 

The ongoing Council meeting has almost all members present, with the exception of a very few number, who are said to be out of the country for various national assignments. 

Those absent at the meeting include Vice President Kashim Shettima who is currently attending the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Apia, Samoa. 

Also not at the meeting are the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun; Foreign Affairs, Yusuf Tuggar; Aviation and Aerospace Development, Festus Keyamo; Power, Adebayo Adelabu; Environment, Professor Joseph Utsev; and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nyesom Wike. 

Shortly before the commencement of the FEC meeting, the President sworn in Dr Abdullahi Usman Bello as Chairman of the Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB). 

Speaking to newsmen after his swearing in, the new CCB Chairman, Bello, outlined his commitment to addressing corruption through the commission, Nigeria’s foremost anti-corruption agency. 

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