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Tomorrow, (Wednesday May 13, 2020), President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to chair the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting – the country’s highest decision-making body, virtually. The FEC meeting will hold within a virtual private network (VPN) allowing access only to those permitted to log on and join the meeting.
Dr Pantami supervising a test run of the virtual tools that the FEC will leverage to have its novel online meeting.
The weekly FEC will be reconvening after it was suspended indefinitely in March following the COVID-19 pandemic and lockdown across Nigeria. The last FEC meeting held physically March 18, 2020, inside the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Tomorrow’s FEC meeting makes history as the first time Nigerian government will be meeting to take the decisions at the highest level within virtual space.
Earlier in the week, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami had supervised a test run of the virtual tools that the FEC will leverage to have its novel online meeting.
Three agencies under the supervision of the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy are providing the connectivity and online tools.
The agencies: Galaxy Backbone, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Nigerian Communications Satellite (NigComSat) Limited are providing the digital platform and technical support to ensure a glitch free FEC meeting.
While work has gradually resumed in most public establishments, government businesses are largely conducted online as ‘partial lockdown remains to check the spread of the dreaded coronavirus. Ministers are expected to join the president from their respective offices.
