Tag: CABINET RESHUFFLES

Anxiety among ministers, as Tinubu plans cabinet reshuffle  

Aminu Imam

…’5 ministers could be dropped’ – Sources President Bola Tinubu is expected to implement a cabinet reshuffle any moment from now, according to sources with knowledge of the development, yesterday. Two independent sources told newsmen that the President intends to rejig his cabinet, which he inaugurated in August because some of the appointees are “struggling in their portfolios and unprepared for the job”. President Tinubu had in November warned cabinet members and other top appointees against under-performance during a Cabinet Retreat at the Conference Centre of the Presidential Villa, in Abuja.…

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Just In! Tinubu reshuffles cabinet hours before inauguration

Aminu Imam

Hours before its scheduled inauguration, President Bola Tinubu yesterday evening, Sunday, August 20, 2023, tinkered with his incoming cabinet. A statement signed by Ajuri Ngelale, Special Adviser to the President (Media & Publicity), said: “President Bola Tinubu has approved the redeployment of Engr. Abubakar Momoh from the Federal Ministry of Youth to the Federal Ministry of Niger-Delta Development. The Federal Ministry of Youth is to be re-assigned to a Minister-Designate soon”. The statement further announced that Ministers-Designate allocated to the Federal Ministries of Transportation, Interior, and Marine & Blue Economy…

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KDSG announces cabinet reshuffle, new appointments

Aminu Imam

Kaduna State governor, Nasir el-Rufa’i, has assigned new portfolios to some commissioners and senior officials of the State Government. According to a press statement issued by the Special Adviser to the Governor (Media & Communication),Muyiwa Adekeye, the governor said that the reshuffle is designed to help harness fresh energy for the government’s final lap, bring new insights and enable the commissioners to have more rounded experience of the government. A statement from Sir Kashim Ibrahim House disclosed that eight of the 14 commissioners swapped portfolios. It however said there were…

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Update… Buhari sacks two Ministers, redeploys two others

Abdul-Azeez Ahmed Kadir

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved a reshuffle in yhe federal executive council formed on August 21, 2019. In a statement to cabinet members during the Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday 1st September, President Buhari announced that Mohammed Sabo Nanono, Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, and Engr. Sale Mamman, Minister of Power have been relieved of their appointments. He announced Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar, Minister of Environment, to assume office as the Minister of Agriculture & Rural Development, while Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu, Minister of State, Works & Housing…

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