President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday swore in ministers and assigned portfolios to them.The ceremony took place at the presidential villa in Abuja.With 44 ministers, Buhari now has the largest cabinet in Nigeria's democratic history.Below is a table of the ministers and their portfolios: Number Name State Portfolio1 Uchechukwu Ogah Abia Minister of State Mines and Steel Development2 Mohammed Bello Adamawa Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)3 Godswill Akpabio Akwa Ibom Minister for [...]
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Boris Johnson, British prime minister, has named Kemi Badenoch, a UK-born Nigerian, a minister in his cabinet. Badenoch was appointed minister of children. Born in London to Nigerian parents, the 39 year old spent part of her childhood in Lagos. She was elected to parliament in 2017, having previously served for the conservatives in the London assembly.At the parliament, Badenoch talked about her [...]
Maikudi Haruna, a senior official of the ministry of power, works and housing, has been arrested for allegedly forging the signature of a former minister.In a statement by Sunday James, spokesperson of the Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS), Haruna was accused of forging the signature of the minister in charge of his ministry to help one Abubakar Mustapha, his client, obtain [...]
Oby Ezekwesili, former vice-president of the World Bank, says it is a fact that she was a minister under the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), but she served in the interest of the people and for good governance.The former minister, who holds the PDP and the ruling All Progressives Congress (APC) responsible for Nigeria's litany of woes, added that all she [...]
Aisha Alhassan, minister of women affairs, says she will resign as a member of the federal executive council (FEC) when the time comes.Alhassan said this in reaction to reports that she had relinquished her position to contest Taraba governorship poll.She had written a letter to President Muhammadu Buhari to notify him of her intention to contest the election under the [...]
Ogbonnaya Onu, minister of science and technology, says there are many things Nigerians are happy about with the current administration.Onu told journalists in Zaria, Kaduna state, that President Muhammadu Buhari is carrying out an all-inclusive transformation of the country, and that he was hopeful that the country would be transformed.The minister, who was in Zaria to inaugurate a chemical laboratory at [...]
The federal government says it prefers to lose billions of dollars in revenue than to risk lives.Hadi Sirika, minister of state for aviation, said this on Monday, disclosing that Thursday had been slated for engaging stakeholders in the industry on issues arising from the proposed closure of the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.Sirika had earlier announced closure of the airport for [...]
Babatunde Fashola, minister of power, works and housing, has blamed Nigerian engineers for creating the vacuum that makes the federal government patronise foreign contractors.Fashola said this when a delegation of the Nigerian Society of Engineers (NSE) led by its president, Otis Anyaeji, paid him a courtesy visit.He said the failure of Nigerian engineering firms to bid for government projects was responsible for the patronage of foreign contractors.“If [...]
Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Dr. (Mrs.) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, has been praised by the Presidency for winning the Rockerfeller Foundation Leadership award.Okonjo-Iweala was named recipient of the award alongside distinguished personalities such as Paul Polman, chief executive officer of Unilever; and Simao Jatene, the governor of the State of Para, Brazil.According to the organizers of the award, [...]
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