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.
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.
List of sacked ex-ministers
1. Barr. Uju-Ken Ohanenye, Minister of Women Affairs
2. Lola Ade-John, Minister of Tourism
3. Prof Tahir Mamman, Minister of Education
4. Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo, Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development
5. Dr. Jamila Bio Ibrahim, Minister of Youth Development.
6. Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs
