President Bola Tinubu has given the green light for the establishment of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) and the formation of the Economic Management Team Emergency Taskforce (EET).<\/p>\n
Ajuri Ngelale, the Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, revealed this in a statement on Wednesday. <\/span><\/p>\n He emphasized that the PECC and EET initiative represents a strategic step to enhance the nation’s economic governance frameworks and ensure comprehensive and coordinated economic planning and execution. <\/span><\/p>\n Ngelale noted that the PECC, led by Tinubu, consists of esteemed leaders and key government officials. <\/span><\/p>\n The team includes Vice-President Kashim Shetimma (vice-chairman of the PECC and chairman of the National Economic Council); Senate President Godwill Akpabio; AbdulRahman AbdulRasaq, Chairman of the Nigeria Governors\u2019 Forum (NGF); Wale Edun, the Coordinating Minister for the Economy and Minister of Finance; Olayemi Cardoso, Governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN); Abubakar Kyari, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, among others. <\/span><\/p>\n Ngelale mentioned further that the PECC will include prominent members of the organized private sector, who will serve for a period not exceeding one year, subject to the President’s directive. <\/span><\/p>\n These private sector members comprise Aliko Dangote, Tony Elumelu, Abdulsamad Rabiu, Amina Maina, Begun Ajayi-Kadir, Funke Okpeke, Doyin Salami, Patrick Okigbo, Kola Adesina, Segun Agbaje, Chidi Ajaere, Abdulkadir Aliu, and Rasheed Sarumi.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" President Bola Tinubu has given the green light for the establishment of the Presidential Economic Coordination Council (PECC) and the formation of the Economic Management Team Emergency Taskforce (EET).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18162,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2456],"tags":[8649,8650,7244],"class_list":["post-18161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","tag-economic-coordination-council","tag-emergency-taskforce","tag-pbat"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18161"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18163,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18161\/revisions\/18163"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}