Adedokun Waliyu 
President Bola Tinubu has slashed the number of people on entourages for international and local travel by 60 percent.
Ajuri Ngelale, presidential spokesperson, announced the development on Tuesday at a press briefing with State House correspondents.
Ngelale said the directive is part of cost cutting measures of the presidency.
He added that the measure will affect the office of the president, vice-president, first lady, ministers and heads of agencies.
“President Tinubu has directed that all state entourages be drastically reduced. This is not a request. It is a directive. The office of the president and staff will be affected. Vice-president, appointees are affected,” the presidential spokesperson said.
“By this directive, there will be a slashing of expenditure on official travel by 60 percent.”
He said the president is limited to have 20 number of staff within and outside the country while the vice-president is limited to five aides outside the country and 15 within the country.
“The same applies to the office of first lady while that of the wife of the vice-president is entitled to five international and 10 for local trips.”
He also said every minister is limited to having just four members of staff on any foreign trip while chief executive officers of agencies of government are restricted to two.
Ngelale added that Tinubu has said he would no longer travel with huge security delegations to any state.
He said the directive also include that if the president travels to any state, the security in the state would take care of the his safety and the same applies to the vice-president and other government officials.
