Skip to main content

Newly Assigned Ministers and their Portfolios in Nigeria


Buhari assigns portfolios to new ministers
President Muhammadu Buhari has assigned portfolios to the 43 newly inaugurated ministers.



The president retained himself as petroleum minister while former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva is to serve as minister of state.
Also appointed is Godswill Akpabio as Niger Delta Minister, Adamu Adamu as Education minister, Isa Pantami; Communication and Rotimi Ameachi; Transportation.
The president also created new ministries such as ministry of police affairs and ministries for humanitarian services.

The full list of ministers and their ministries is below:
1. President Muhammadu Buhari – Minister of Petroleum
2. Mohammed Musa Bello – Adamawa State – Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT
3. Godswill Akpabio – Akwa Ibom State – Minister of Niger Delta
4. Chris Ngige – Anambra State – Minister Labour and Employment
5. Sharon Ikeazor – Anambra State – Minister of Environment
6. Adamu Adamu — Bauchi State – Minister of Education
7. Ambassador Maryam Katagum – Bauchi State – Minister of State Industry
8. Timipre Sylva – Bayelsa State – Minister of State for Petroleum
9. George Akume – Benue State – Minister of Special Duties
10. Mustapha Baba Shehuri – Borno State – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
11. Goddy Jedy Agba – Cross River State – Minister of State, Power
12. Festus Keyamo – Delta State – Minister of State, for Niger Delta
13. Ogbonnaya Onu – Ebonyi State – Minister of Science and Technology
14. Osagie Ehanire — Edo State – Minister of Health
15. Clement Ike – Edo State — Minister of State for Budget
16. Richard Adeniyi Adebayo – Ekiti State – Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment
17. Geoffrey Onyeama – Enugu State – Minister of Foreign Affairs
18. Ali Isa Pantami – Gombe State – Minister of Communication
19. Emeka Nwajiuba – Imo State – Minister of State for Education
20. Suleiman Adamu – Jigawa State – Minister of Water Resources
21. Zainab Ahmed – Kaduna State – Minister of Finance
22. Muhammad Mahmood – Kaduna State – State Environment
23. Sabo Nanono – Kano State – Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development
24. Bashir Salihi Magashi – Kano State – Minister of Defence
25. Hadi Sirika – Katsina State – Minister of Aviation
26. Abubakar Malami – Kebbi State – Minister of Justice/Attorney General of the Federation
27. Ramatu Tijjani – Kogi State – Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
28. Lai Mohammed – Kwara State – Minister of Information and Culture
29. Gbemisola Saraki – Kwara State – Minister of State, Transportation
30. Babatunde Fashola – Lagos State – Minister of Works and Housing
31. Adeleke Mamora – Lagos State – Minister of State for Health
32. Mohammed H. Abdullahi – Nasarawa State – Minister of State, Science and Technology
33. Zubair Dada – Niger State – Minister of State, Foreign Affairs
34. Olamilekan Adegbite – Ogun State – Minister of Mines and Steel Development
35. Tayo Alasoadura – Ondo State – Minister of State, Labour and Employment
36. Rauf Aregbesola – Osun State – Minister Interior
37. Sunday Dare – Oyo State – Minister of Youth and Sports
38. Paulen Tallen – Plateau State – Minister of Women Affairs
39. Rotimi Amaechi – Rivers State – Minister of Transportation
40. Maigari Dingyadi – Sokoto State – Minister of Police Affairs
41. Sale Mamman – Taraba State – Minister of Power
42. Abubakar D. Aliyu – Yobe State – Minister of State, Works and Housing
43. Sadiya Umar Faruk – Zamfara State – Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management
44. Dr. Ikechukwu Ogah – Abia State – Minister of State Mines and Steel



Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Dr David Yonggi Cho: Pastor of world's largest congregation!

Posted by Admin David Yungi Cho (formerly known as Paul Yungi Cho) is a Korean Christian minister. He is Senior Pastor and founder of the Yoido Full Gospel Church (Assemblies of God), the world's largest congregation, with a claimed membership of 830,000 (as of 2007). Early life He was born on February 14, 1936, in Ulju-gun, now part of Ulsan metropolitan city. The son of Cho Doo-chun and Kim Bok-sun, Cho was the eldest of five brothers and four sisters. He graduated from middle school with honours. Because his father's sock and glove business went bankrupt, he could not afford high school or university tuition. Subsequently, he enrolled in an inexpensive technical high school to learn a trade. At the same time, he began frequenting an American army base near his school, and learned English from soldiers whom he befriended. He mastered English quickly, and became an interpreter for the commander of the army base, and also for the principal of his school. Ra...
Post a Comment
Read more

POWER OF INFLUENCE

THE POWER OF INFLUENCE An individual begins to develop his or her leadership abilities when he or she starts to influence others towards a particular direction. The reason why you take the lead when you influence others is basically because we are dealing with humans. Other things such as animals, money and properties can only be managed and controlled before you can generate value from them or multiply their usefulness but for humans, it is a different case totally. We actually don’t manage people but lead them. There is a clear distinction between leading and managing. ‘To lead’ simply means to influence. It is to influence others towards the effective and efficient utilization of resources for the maximum productivity of the individual and ultimately the society. ‘To manage’ is to create a process of achieving certain objectives clearly set out through planning, organizing, controlling and directing of human resources. These two concepts are both important in any set...
Post a Comment
Read more

Kaduna: Biometric verification for all civil service workers

The Kaduna State Government , headed by Governor Nasir El - Rufai , has announced the commencement of biometric verification of all civil servants in its employment from Wednesday 24 June 2015 . The Head of Service, Mrs Alisabatu Dada-Onazi, announced the exercise in a statement . She said it is designed to provide the government with accurate and reliable record of its personnel and clean- up its payroll. According to the circular , data collected from the exercise will enable the government to determine whether the billions of naira spent monthly on staff salaries are paid to identifiable and verifiable civil servants or not. The biometric registration exercise will be conducted simultaneously across the three zones , will take place in Kaduna , Kafanchan and Zaria. While specifying the order in which the personnel from each ministry are expected to appear for the exercise , civil servants are advised to bring their letter of appointment, letter of last promotion and means of ide...
Post a Comment
Read more