BREAKING: Buhari receives first made-in-Nigeria phone

Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Otunba Adeniyi Adebayo, has presented the first made-in-Nigeria mobile handset, ITF Mobile, to President Muihammadu Buhari.

The presentation was made during the FEC meeting at the State House, Abuja.

Adebayo said it was produced by the Electrical/Electronics Technology Department of the Industrial Training Fund’s (ITF) Model Skills Training Centre, using locally sourced components.

He said 12 indigenous mobile cell phones were produced by the Model Skills Training Centre of the Industrial Training Fund, an agency under Ministry of Industry Trade and Investment.

“It gives me great pleasure, Mr President, to present you with one of the phones,” Adebayo said.

Also before the start of the FEC meeting, Buhari presided over the swearing-in ceremony of a commissioner each for the National Population Commission (NPC) and the Federal Civil Service Commission (FCSC).

Those sworn-in are Wakil Bukar as commissioner of the FCSC and Mohammed Dattijo Usman as commissioner of the NPC.

Bukar is to replace the FCSC commissioner from Bauchi State while Usman replaces the NPC commissioner from Niger State.

Representatives from the two States died recently.

President Buhari is presiding over the FEC meeting at the conference room of the First Lady’s office.

 

Those attending the meeting physically are the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo (SAN); Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Boss Mustapha; and Chief of Staff to the President, Professor Ibrahim Gambari.

Others are Ministers of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed; Finance, Zainab Ahmed; Justice, Abubakar Malami; and Industry, Trade and investment, Niyi Adebayo.

The Head of Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan and other ministers joined virtually in the weekly cabinet meeting from their various offices in Abuja