President Muhammadu Buhari has assigned offices to his ministers, charging them to get to work “speedily”.
Reeling out the portfolio after the swearing-in ceremony of the 36 ministers at the council chamber of the presidential villa, the president announced that the ministries have been reduced to 24.
Babatunde Fashola, former governor of Lagos, is minister of power, works and housing.
Rotimi Amaechi, former governor of Rivers state and director-general of the All Progressives Congress (APC) presidential campaign, is the new minister of transportation and Lai Mohammed, APC’s spokesman, minister of information.
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Kayode Fayemi is in charge of solid minerals, Kemi Adeosun finance, Adebayo Shittu communications and Audu Ogbeh agriculture.
The full list
- Abubakar Malami – Justice
- Geoffrey Onyema – Foreign Affairs
- Kadija Bukar-Abba Ibrahim – State Foreign Affairs
- M. M. Ali – Defence
- Adamu Adamu – Education
- Anthony Anwuka – Education (state)
- Kemi Adeosun – Finance
- Okechukwu Enelamah – Industry, Trade & Investment
- Aisha Abubakar – Industry, Trade & Investment (state)
- Chris Ngige – Labour & Unemployment
- James Ocholi – State Labour & Unemployment
- Mohammed Bello – FCT
- Abdulrahman Dambazau – Interior
- Udoma Udo Udoma – Budget & National Planning
- Zainab Ahmed – Budget & National Planning (state)
- Muhammadu Buhari – Petroleum Resources
- Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu – State Petroleum Resources
- Babatunde Fashola – Power, Works & Housing
- Mustapha Baba – State Power, Works & Housing
- Audu Ogbeh- Agriculture & Rural Development
- Heineken Lokpobiri – State – Agriculture & Rural Development
- Chibuike Amaechi – Transportation
- Hadi Sirika – State Aviation
- Isaac Adewole – Health
- Osagie Ehanire – State Health
- Aisha Alhassan – Woman Affairs
- Osani Osani – Niger Delta
- Claudius Daramola – State Niger Delta
- Adebayo Shittu – Communications
- Lai Mohammed – Information
- Suleiman Adamu – Water Resources
- Solomon Dalong – Youth & Sports
- Amina Mohammed – Environment
- Ibrahim Usman Jibril – State Environment
- Suleman Adamu – Water Resources
- Kayode Fayemi – Solid Minerals
- Abubakar Bawa Bwari – State Solid Minerals
- Ogbonnaya Onu – Science & Technology
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