List of MDAs approved by FEC for merger, scrapping to reduce cost of governance

By DAVID IORJA, Abuja –

The Federal Executive Council (FEC) has approved the merging, scrapping and subsuming of some Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government in line with its policy of reducing cost of governance.

Special Adviser to the President on Policy Coordination, Hajiya Hadiza Bala-Usman,  who made this known at the end of the second FEC meeting of 2024, said the decision was based on the Steve Oronsaye Report on civil service reforms inaugurated in 2014.

The list of some of the affected MDAs:

According to Bala-Usman:

• The Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN) is to be merged with the Voice of Nigeria (VON)
• The National Commission for Museum and Monuments is to be merged with the National Gallery of Acts.
• The National Theatre is to be merged with National Troupe of Nigeria
• The National Meteorological Development Centre is to be merged with the National Meteorological Training Institute.
• The National Agency for Control of HIV/AIDS (NACA), is to be merged with the Centre for Disease Control in the Federal Ministry of Health,
• National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA), is to be merged with the National Commission for Refugee Migration and Internally Displaced Persons
• 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
• Infrastructure concession Regulatory Commission is to be merged with Bureau for public enterprises
• Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission (NIPC) is to be merged with Nigerian Export Promotion Council (NEPC)
• The National Agency for science and Technology and Science and Engineering Infrastructure is to be merged with National Centre for Agricultural Mechanisation and the Project Development Institute
• The National Biotechnology Development Agency would be merged with the National Centre for Genetic Resource and Biotechnology
• The National Institute for Leather Science Technology would be merged with the National Institute for Chemical Technology.
• The Nomadic Education Commission would be merged with the National Commission for Mass Literacy, Adult Education and Non-formal Education
• The Nigerian Army University would be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) to function as a faculty within the Academy
• The Air Force Institute of Technology would be merged with the Nigerian Defence Academy (NDA) to function as a faculty at the NDA.

* Other agencies to be subsumed: include:

• The Service Compact with Nigeria (SERVICOM) would be subsumed to function as a department under the Bureau of Public Service Reform (BPSR)
• The Border Communities Development Agency would be subsumed to function as a department under the National Boundary Commission.
• The National Salaries Income and Wages Commission is to be subsumed into the Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Allocation Commission
• The Institute for Peace and Conflict Resolution is to be subsumed under the Institute for International Affairs.
• The Public Complaints Commission is to be subsumed under the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC)
• The Nigerian Institute for Trypanosomiasis is to be subsumed into the Institute for Veterinary Research
• The National Medicine Development Agency is to be subsumed under the National Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Development (NPRD)
• The National Intelligence Agency Pension Commission is to be subsumed under the Nigerian pension commission

Agencies to be relocated:

• The Niger Delta Power Holding Company is to be relocated to the Ministry of Power
• The National Agricultural Land Development Agency (NALDA) is to be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Agriculture and Food Security
• National Blood Service Commission would be converted into an agency and relocated to the Federal Ministry of Health
• The Nigerian Diaspora Commission is to be converted into an agency and be relocated to the Federal Ministry of Finance.

According to Bala-Usman, the President has constituted a committee that would, work within 12 weeks

(With additional report by NAN)

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