President BOLA TINUBU has inaugurated a 31-member Presidential Economic Coordination Council comprising himself, the Vice President, the Senate President, and the Chairman of the Nigerian Governors Forum, among others.
The inauguration comes three months after the President established the committee on March 27, 2024.
President TINUBU also presented the outcomes of his review of the accelerated stabilisation and advancement plan, which seeks to inject two trillion naira into the economy in the next six months.
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, WALE EDUN, who led selected members of the Council to brief State House Correspondents after the inauguration said the Health, Agriculture, and Energy/Power sectors will be prioritized in the emergency funding.
In addition, the Council is to galvanize the current administration’s target of getting crude oil production up to two million barrels per day.