President Bola Tinubu has appointed seven new ministers to his cabinet.
The new appointments were announced in a statement issued by
the presidency after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday.
Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu was appointed as minister of
state foreign affairs while Jumoke Oduwole was assigned to the ministry of
industry, trade and investment.
Nentawe Yilwatda was appointed to replace the suspended
Betta Edu as the minister of humanitarian affairs and poverty reduction while
Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi was named the new minister of labour &
employment.
Idi Mukhtar Maiha was appointed as the minister of livestock
development while Yusuf Abdullahi Ata is the minister of state, housing and
urban development.
The president also approved the appointment of Suwaiba Said
Ahmad as the minister of state, education.
Meanwhile, Shehu Dikko was appointed as the chairman of the
National Sports Commission (NSC) which will now take over the duties of the
now-scrapped ministry of sports development.
Sunday Dare, the minister of sports in the Muhammadu Buhari
administration, was appointed as the special adviser to the president on public
communication and orientation.
Dare will operate from the ministry of information and
national orientation.
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