BUHARI ASSIGNS MINISTERS; AVIATION AND TRANSPORT MERGED

President Muhammadu Buhari and his Vice with the newly appointed ministers of Nigeria 

The Federal Ministries of Nigeria are Civil Service departments responsible for delivering various types of government service. Each ministry is headed

by a Permanent Secretary who reports to an appointed Minister in the Federal Cabinet. 

At times, ministries are amalgamated and at other times they are split. It will be recall that during the tenure of  late president Umaru Yar’Adua  Halima Tayo Alao was appointed Minister of Environment and Housing on 26 July 2007, and after a cabinet reshuffle, in December 2008 Nduese Essien was appointed Minister of Environment and Hassan Muhammed Lawal was appointed Minister of Works and Housing. On 6 April 2010, Mohammed Daggash was appointed Minister of Works and Nduese Essien was appointed Minister of Lands, Housing & Urban Development.

President Muhammadu Buhari, in assigning offices to the newly appointed ministers also did some amalgamating.

The full list of the ministers and their offices are as follows:

Muhammadu Buhari — Petroleum

Kemi Adeosun (Ogun) – Finance

Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)–Transportation

Chris Ngige (Anambra)–Labour and Employment

Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti)–Solid Minerals

Babatunde Fashola (Lagos)–Power, Works and Housing

Abdulrahman Dambazau (Kano)–Interior

Aisha Alhassan (Taraba)–Women Affairs

Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)–Science and Technology

Abubakar Malami (Kebbi)–Justice

Hadi Sirika (Katsina)–State for Aviation

Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa)–Water Resources

Solomon Dalong (Plateau)–Youths and Sports

Ibeh Kachikwu (Delta)–State for Petroleum

Osagie Ehanire (Edo)–State for Health

Audu Ogbeh (Benue)–Agriculture

Udo Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom)–Budget and National Planning

Lai Mohammed (Kwara)–Information

Amina Mohammed (Gombe)–Environment

Ibrahim Usman Jibril (Nasarawa)— State for Environment

Anthony Onwuka (Imo) – State for Education

Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa) — FCT

Adamu Adamu (Bauchi) — Education

Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia) – Industry, Trade and Investment

Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto) — State for Trade, Industry and Investment

Khadija Bukar Abba (Yobe) – State for Foreign Affairs

Claudius Daramola (Ondo) – State for Niger Delta

Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu) — Foreign Affairs

Monsur Dan-Ali (Zamfara) — Defence

James Ocholi (Kogi) – State for Labour

Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna) – State for Budget and National Planning

Mustapha Shehuri (Borno) — State for Power

Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa)–State for Agriculture

Isaac Adewole Folorunsho (Osun) — Health

Usani Usani Uguru (Cross River) — Niger Delta

Abubakar Bwari Bawa (Niger) — State for Solid Minerals

Adebayo Shittu (Oyo) — Communications

While some see the latest development as a step taken to slash the Federal expenses others sees it as a step taken to strengthen control of the ministries. Perhaps, some may see it in another perspective.

It is the hope of many Nigerians that some of the nonfunctional ministries begin to function again thereby creating jobs for the large multitude of unemployed youths in the country.