In accordance with the policy of reducing cost of Governance, the Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the merging, scrapping and subsuming of some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government
Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Hajiya Hadiza Bala-Usman, made this known at the end of the second FEC meeting of the year. She said that decision was based on the Steve Oronsaye Report on civil service report inaugurated under former President Goodluck Jonathan’s administration since 2014.
Bala Usman said agencies that would undergo merger include the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria is to be merged with the Voice of Nigeria while the National Commission for Museum and Monuments is to be merged with the National Gallery of Arts.
She said also added that the National Theatre is to be merged with National Troupe of Nigeria while the National Meteorological Development Centre is to be merged with the National Meteorological Training Institute.
‘’The Directorate of Technical Cooperation in Africa will be merged with the Directorate of Technical Aid and to function as a Department in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
‘’National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (NACA) to be merged with the Centre for Disease Control in the Federal Ministry of Health while National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) to be merge with the National Commission for Refugee Migration and Internally Displaced Persons.
” Infrastructure concession Regulatory Commission to be merged with Bureau for public enterprises.
‘’Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council while the National Agency for science and technology and science and engineering infrastructure to be merged with National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and the Project Development Institute,” she said.
She said the National Institute for Leather Science Technology will be merged with the National Institute for Chemical Technology;
The Nomadic Education Commission will be merged with the National Commission for mass literacy, adult education and non-formal education
Bala-Usman said the President had constituted a committee that would work within a 12-week period to ensure that the necessary restructuring and legislative amendments needed to ensure full actualization of these approvals was granted.
