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TIMIPRE, ONYEMA, RAUF AREGBESOLA GET JUICY PORTFOLIOS AS PRESIDENT BUHARI INAUGRATES NEW MINISTERS
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Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari earlier today in Abuja inaugurated 43 ministers who will work with him in his second tenure in office. The President also assigned portfolios to the ministers who were screened last month by the Senate.
Meanwhile, president Buhari returned himself as the substantive Minister of Petroleum Resources while the former governor of Bayelsa State Timipre Sylva is now the Minister of State for Petroleum.
The list of ministers and their portfolios are listed below:
1. Dr. Uchehukwu Ogah (Abia State)- State Minister, Mines and Steel Development
2. Mohammed Musa Bello (Adamawa State)- Minister of Federal Capital Territory
3. Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom State)- Minister of Niger Delta
4. Chris Ngige (Anambra State)- Minister of Labour and Productivity
5. Sharon Ikeazor (Anambra State) State Minister, Environment
6. Adamu Adamu (Bauchi State) Minister of Education
7. Ambassador Maryam Katagun (Bauchi State) State Minister, Trade and Investment
8. Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa State) State Minister of Petroleum
9. George Akume (Benue State) Minister Special Duties and International Affairs
10. Mustapha Baba Shehuri (Borno State) State Minister, Agriculture and Rural development
11. Goddy Jedy Agba (Cross River State) State Minister, Power
12. Festus Keyamo (Delta State) State Minister, 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) State Minister, Budget and National Planning
16. Richard Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti State) Minister of Trade and Investment
17. Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu State) Minister of Foreign Affairs
18. Ali Isa Pantami (Gombe State) Minister of Communication
19. Chukwuemeka Nwajiuba (Imo State) State Minister, Education
20. Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa State) Minister of Water resources
21. Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna State) Minister of Finance
22. Muhammad Mahmood (Kaduna State) Minister of Environment
23. Sabo Nanono (Kano State) Minister of Agriculture and Rural development
24. Rtd. Major General Bashir Salihi Magashi (Kano State) Minister of Defense
25. Hadi Sirika (Katsina State) Minister of Aviation
26. Abubakar Malami (Kebbi State) Attorney General Of the Federation and Minister of Justice
27. Ramatu Tijjani (Kogi State) State Minister, Federal Capital Territory
28. Lai Mohammed (Kwara State) Minister of Information and Culture
29. Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara State) State Minister, Transportation
30. Babatunde Fashola (Lagos State) Minister of Works and Housing
31. Adeleke Mamora (Lagos State) State Minister, for Health
32. Mohammed H. Abdullahi (Nasarawa State) State Minister, Science and Technology
33. Zubair Dada (Niger State) State Minister, Foreign Affairs
34. Olamilekan Adegbite (Ogun State) Minister of Mines and Development
35. Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo State) State Minister, Labour and Employment
36. Rauf Aregbesola (Osun State) Minister of Interior
37. Sunday Dare (Oyo State) Minister of Youth and Sport
38. Paulen Talen (Plateau State) Minister of Women Affairs
39. Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers State) Minister of Transportation
40. Maigarai Dingyadi (Sokoto State) Minister of Police Affairs
41. Sale Mamman (Taraba State) Minister of Power
42. Abubakar D. Aliyu (Yobe State) State Minister, Works and housing
43. Sadiya Umar Faruk (Zamfara State) Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster managenment and Social Development
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