- Sacks “Controversial” Educ Minister, Four Others
- Reassigns 10, Nominates Bianca Ojukwu, Six Others For Senate Confirmation
- Scraps N/Delta, Sports Devt Ministries
Months after growing calls for him to rejig his cabinet,President Bola Tinubu, yesterday, sacked five of his ministers.
He also re-assigned 10 ministers to new ministerial portfolios and appointed seven new ministers for Senate confirmation.
The President sacked the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju-Ken Ohanenye;the Minister of Tourism, Lola Ade-John; the Minister of Education, Tahir Mamman; Minister of State Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Gwarzo; and Minister of Youth Development, Jamila Ibrahim.
Tinubu, however, nominated Bianca Odumegu-Ojukwu as the Minister of State Foreign Affairs, while NentaweYilwatda as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, officially bringing an end to the tenure of suspended Betta Edu.
The President also nominated Maigari Dingyadi as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Jumoke Oduwole as the Minister of Industry, Idi Maiha as Minister for the newly created Livestock Development Ministry, Yusuf Ata as the Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development, with Suwaiba Ahmad as Minister of State Education.
Earlier, yesterday, the President scrapped the Ministry of Niger Delta Development and announced the Ministry of Regional Development as a replacement to oversee the activities of all the regional development commissions.
The Regional Development Commissions to be under the supervision of the new Ministry are the Niger Delta Development Commission, the South East Development Commission, the North East Development and the North West Development Commission.
Tinubu also scrapped the Ministry of Sports Development and transferred its functions to the National Sports Commission to “develop a vibrant sports economy”.
The president approved the merger of the Federal Ministry of Tourism and the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture to become the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy.
The cabinet reshuffle saw Sunday Dare, former Minister of Sports during the Muhammadu Buhari administration, bag a new appointment and also appointment of Shehu Dikko as Chairman of the National Sports Commission.
“The appointment of Sunday Akin Dare as Special Adviser to the President on Public Communication and Orientation working from the Ministry of Information and National Orientation,” the President said.
The president appreciated the outgoing members of the Federal Executive Council for their service to the nation while wishing them the best in their future endeavours.
He then charged the newly appointed ministers as well as their reassigned colleagues to see their appointment as a call to serve the nation. He added that all appointees must understand the administration’s eagerness and determination to set Nigeria on the path to irreversible growth and invest the best of their abilities into the actualisation of the government’s priorities.
