Tinubu <\/a>issued the directive during the Federal Executive Council meeting on December 10, 2025.<\/p>\nThe President called on NEC to work with the Ministry of Livestock Development to create a roadmap for transforming Nigeria\u2019s livestock sector, emphasising that the reform should prevent conflicts and become an economically viable development. \u201cThe opportunity is there. Let\u2019s utilise it,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
At the previous 155th meeting on December 18, 2025, NEC set up a committee on livestock development to fast-track nationwide ranching and livestock production reforms.<\/p>\n
Chaired by Kebbi State Governor Nasir Idris, the committee includes representatives from each of Nigeria\u2019s six geopolitical zones, Bauchi (North-East), Niger (North-Central), Ondo (South-West), Imo (South-East), Cross River (South-South), and Kebbi (North-West).<\/p>\n
Other members comprise the Ministers of Livestock Development, Agriculture and Food Security, Budget and Economic Planning, and the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Agribusiness.<\/p>\n
The panel\u2019s mandate is to review proposals from the Presidential Livestock Reform Committee and the Ministry of Livestock Development and to identify states willing to participate in the programme.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Vice President Kashim Shettima on Thursday chaired the 156th National Economic Council (NEC) meeting at the Aso Rock Villa, Abuja. The hybrid session, which commenced at 4:17 pm local time, marks the council\u2019s second gathering since President Bola Tinubu instructed NEC to convert grazing reserves into ranches. Tinubu issued the directive during the Federal Executive […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":239422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5],"tags":[760,2685,509],"class_list":["post-239421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-abuja","tag-nec-meeting","tag-shettima"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/kashim-shettima.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abiaradiostations.com.ng\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}