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Tinubu orders merger, scrapping of many govt agencies

President Bola Tinubu has ordered the full implementation of the Stephen Oronsaye report.⁣ The Oronsaye report proposed a leaner government by merging some agencies and scrapping many others. The president’s decision was announced by a presidential spokesperson, Bayo Onanuga, in a post on X. “Twelve years after the Steve Oronsaye panel submitted its report on restructuring and rationalizing Federal government parastatals and agencies and a white paper issued two years after, President Tinubu and the Federal Executive Council today decided to implement the report,” Mr Onanuga wrote. “Many agencies will be scrapped and many others will be merged, to pave way to a leaner government,” he said. Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, also disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents at the end of the FEC meeting, presided over by President Bola Tinubu, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja. The minister explained that with the adoption of th...