ABUJA – PRESIDENT Bola Tinubu has sacked six Ministers from his cabinet and also forwarded to the National Assembly seven ministerial nominees to take over from the vacant positions.
President Tinubu also appointed Shehu Dikko as Chairman of the National Sports Commission and he will take charge of the activities and programmes of the defunct Ministry of Sports Development.
The President appointed two former Ministers under President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration, former Police Affairs minister as the substantive Minister of Labour and Employment, while former Minister of Youths and Sports Development, Sunday Dare was appointed as Special Adviser on Public Communication and Orientation under the Ministry of Information and National Orientation.
The Ministers that were sacked from the cabinet were Prof. Tahir Mamman, (Education), Uju Kennedy Ohanenye (Women Affairs), Mohammad Gwarzo (State for Housing), Jamila Ibrahim (Youth Development), Lola Ade-John (Tourism) and the suspended Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu, who has been replaced even though the government was silent on her status.
The President also forwarded seven new ministerial nominees with their portfolios to the National Assembly including wife of late Dim Odumegwu Ojukwu, Mrs. Bianca Ojukwu (State for Foreign Affairs) for confirmation.
Others are Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, who replaces the suspended Beta Edu Minister of Humanitarian, Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, Minister of Labour and Employment, Federal Ministry of Labour & Employment and Dr Jumoke Oduwole, Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment.
Idi Mukhtar Maiha was nominated as the Minister of Livestock Development,
Rt. Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development and Suwaiba Said Ahmad, Minister of State, Education, Federal Ministry of Education.
Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga disclosed this while briefing State House correspondents after the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting, presided over by the President, at the Council Chamber, Presidential Villa, Abuja.
Onanuga also announced that ten Ministers have been reassigned new portfolios.
They are, Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu, former Minister of State, Education, now Minister of State Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr. Morufu Olatunji Alausa Minister State, Health, now substantive Minister of Education, Bello Muhammad Goronyo Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation, now Minister of State for Works.
Also redeployed are Abubakar Momoh, former Minister of Niger Delta Development, now Minister of Regional Development, Uba Maigari Ahmadu, Minister of State Steel Development, now Minister of State, Regional Development and Dr. Doris Uzoka-Anite Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, now Minister of State Finance.
The former Minister of Sports Development, Senator John Owan Enoh has been redeployed as the Minister of State Trade and Investment [Industry], Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim, who was the Minister of State, Police Affairs, is now Minister of Women Affairs, Ayodele Olawande, Minister of State for Youth Development, now Minister for Youth Development, while Dr. Salako Iziaq Adekunle Adeboye, Minister of State, Environment, now Minister of State, Health.
Onanuga said, “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has approved the immediate implementation of eight far-reaching actions to reinvigorate the Administration’s capacity for optimal efficiency pursuant of his commitment to deliver on his promises to Nigerians.
“The eight actions approved by Mr. President include:
“The renaming of the Ministry of Nigeria Delta Development to Ministry of Regional Development 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.
“The immediate winding up of the Ministry of Sports Development and the transfer of its functions to the National Sports Commission in order to develop a vibrant sports economy;