••• NOMINATES SEVEN NEW MINISTERS, REDEPLOYS TEN
President Bola Tinubu has sacked the Minister of Education, Prof Tahir Mamman (SAN), and his Minister of Women Affairs counterpart, Barr. Uju-Ken Ohanenye.
The President also sacked Lola Ade-John (Minister of Tourism) Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo (Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development) and Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim (Minister of Youth Development.)
The President who reassigned ten ministers to new ministerial portfolios also forwarded ten new ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
The newly appointed ministers are: Muhammadu Maigari
Dingyadi (Minister of Labour &
Employment, Federal Ministry of
Labour & Employment; Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu
(Minister of State Foreign
Affairs) Dr Jumoke Oduwole (Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment) Idi Mukhtar Maiha Minister of Livestock
Development, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, (Minister of State,
Housing and Urban
Development) and Suwaiba Said Ahmad Minister of State
Education.
Those redeployed to new ministries are former Minister of State, Education Hon Dr. Yusuf Tanko
Sununu now Minister of State
Humanitarian Affairs
and Poverty Reduction; Dr. Morufu Olatunji Alausa former Minister State, Health, now Minister of Education, Barr. Bello Muhammad
Goronyo former Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation now Minister of State
Works, Hon. Abubakar
Eshiokpekha Momoh former Minister of Niger Delta
Development now Minister of Regional
Development, Uba Maigari Ahmadu former Minister of State Steel
Development now Minister of State
Regional Development.
Others are Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite Minister of Industry, Trade
and Investment now Minister of State
Finance, Sen. John Owan Enoh Minister of Sports
Development now Minister of State
Trade and Investment
[Industry], Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim Minister of State, Police
Affairs, now Minister of Women
Affairs, Ayodele Olawande Minister of State for Youth Development, now Minister for Youth
Development and Dr. Salako Iziaq
Adekunle Adeboye
Minister of State, Environment now Minister of State, Health.
The announcement from the Presidency also stated that the President appointed Shehu Dikko as Chairman of the National Sports
Commission and Sunday Akin Dare as Special Adviser to the
President on Public Communication and Orientation working from the
Ministry of Information and National Orientation.
