President Bola Tinubu has assigned portfolios to ministers after months of waiting by Nigerians.
The list, which was released on Wednesday, is made up of new appointees, except for a few like the former Minister of State for Labour, Festus Keyamo, who served in the previous administration.
The full list is below:
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- Minister of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy – Bosun Tijani,
- Minister of State, Environment and Ecological Management – Ishak Salako
- Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy – Wale Edun
- Minister of Marine and Blue Economy – Bunmi Tunji
- Minister of Power – Adedayo Adelabu
- Minister of State, Health and Social Welfare – Tunji Alausa
- Minister of Solid Minerals Development – Dele Alake
- Minister of Tourism – Lola Ade-John
- Minister of Transportation – Adegboyega Oyetola
- Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment – Doris Anite
- Minister of Innovation Science and Technology –Uche Nnaji
- Minister of State, Labour, and Employment – Nkiruka Onyejeocha
- Minister of Women Affairs – Uju Kennedy
- Minister of Works – David Umahi
- Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development – Festus Keyamo
- Minister of Youth – Abubakar Momoh
- Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation – Betta Edu
- Minister of State, Gas Resources – Ekperikpe Ekpo
- Minister of State, Petroleum Resources – Heineken Lokpobiri
- Minister of Sports Development – John Enoh
- Minister of Federal Capital Territory – Nyesom Wike
- Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy – Hannatu Musawa
- Minister of Defence – Mohammed Badaru
- Minister of State Defence – Bello Matawalle
- Minister of State Education – Yusuf T. Sunumu
- Minister of Housing and Urban Development – Ahmed M. Dangiwa
- Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development – Abdullah T. Gwarzo
- Minister of Budget and Economic Planning – Atiku Bagudu
- Minister of Environment and Ecological Management, (reserved for Kaduna State which does not yet have a nominee)
- Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory – Mairiga Mahmud
- Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation – Bello M. Goronyo
- Minister of Agriculture and Food Security – Abubakar Kyari
- Minister of Education – Tahir Maman
- Minister of Interior – Sa’Idu A. Alkali
- Minister of Foreign Affairs – Yusuf M. Tuggar
- Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare – Ali Pate
- Minister of Police Affairs – Ibrahim Geidam
- Minister of State, Steel Development – U. Maigari Ahmadu
- Minister of Steel Development – Shuaibu A. Audu
- Minister of Information and National Orientation –Muhammed Idris
- Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice – Lateef Fagbemi
- Minister of Labour and Employment – Simon B. Lalong
- Minister of State, Police Affairs – Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim
- Minister of Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs – Zephaniah Jisalo
- Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation – Joseph Utsev
- Minister of State, Agriculture, and Food Security – Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
The Nigerian government has approved the redeployment of Abubakar Momoh from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger Delta Development. The Federal Ministry of Youth is to be reassigned to a minister-designate soon.
The ministers-designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy have been reshuffled as follows:
(A) H.E. Adegboyega Oyetola is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Marine & Blue Economy
(B) Hon. Bunmi Tunji-Ojo is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Interior
(C) Hon. Sa’idu Alkali is redeployed as the Honourable Minister of Transportation
Furthermore, both Ministers of State in the Oil & Gas sector are now domiciled in the Federal Ministry of Petroleum Resources with the following designations:
(i) Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri is the Hon. Minister of State (Oil), Petroleum Resources
(ii) Hon. Ekperipe Ekpo is the Hon. Minister of State (Gas), Petroleum Resources
The president approved the renaming of the Federal Ministry of Environment and Ecological Management as the Federal Ministry of Environment. All aforementioned changes take immediate effect by these directives of the President.
List of Nigeria’s New Ministerial Nominees from Tinubu by State of Origin
List of Nigeria’s New Ministerial Nominees from Tinubu by State of Origin
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