Eid-el-Kabir: FG Cancels Wednesday’s FEC Meeting

Hamilton Nwosa
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The weekly Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting will not hold tomorrow. This is official.

Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed said the meeting will not hold because the Eid-el-KABIR holiday deprived the ministers adequate  time to prepare the documents for the meeting.

In a statement issued in Kano on Tuesday, the Minister said the two-day public holidays declared for the Eid-el-Kabir celebrations left little or no time to prepare for the weekly meeting.

Last week when the meeting held, the Federal Government approved the Mambilla  hydro project that will be handled by a consortium of Chinese companies at a cost of $5.79billion.

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