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By Orji Sampson<\/b><\/p>\n
President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday\u00a0assigned portfolios to the 43 newly inaugurated ministers<\/a>\u00a0as Prof Emeka Nwajiuba of Imo state was named the Minister of State Education.<\/p>\n The president meanwhile, retained himself as petroleum minister while former Governor of Bayelsa State, Timipre Sylva is to serve as minister of state.<\/p>\n Also appointed is Godswill Akpabio as Niger Delta Minister, Adamu Adamu as Education minister, Isa Pantami; Communication and Rotimi Ameachi; Transportation.<\/p>\n The\u00a0president<\/a>\u00a0also created new ministries such as ministry of police affairs and ministries for humanitarian services.<\/p>\n The full list of ministers and their ministries is below:<\/p>\n 1. President Muhammadu Buhari \u2013 Minister of Petroleum<\/p>\n 2. Mohammed Musa Bello \u2013 Adamawa State \u2013 Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT<\/p>\n 3. Godswill Akpabio \u2013 Akwa Ibom State \u2013 Minister of Niger Delta<\/p>\n 4. Chris Ngige \u2013 Anambra State \u2013 Minister Labour and Employment<\/p>\n 5. Sharon Ikeazor \u2013 Anambra State \u2013 Minister of Environment<\/p>\n 6. Adamu Adamu \u2014 Bauchi State \u2013 Minister of Education<\/p>\n 7. Ambassador Maryam Katagum \u2013 Bauchi State \u2013 Minister of State Industry<\/p>\n 8. Timipre Sylva \u2013 Bayelsa State \u2013 Minister of State for Petroleum<\/p>\n 9. George Akume \u2013 Benue State \u2013 Minister of Special Duties<\/p>\n 10. Mustapha Baba Shehuri \u2013 Borno State \u2013 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development<\/p>\n 11. Goddy Jedy Agba \u2013 Cross River State \u2013 Minister of State, Power<\/p>\n 12. Festus Keyamo \u2013 Delta State \u2013 Minister of State, for Niger Delta<\/p>\n 13. Ogbonnaya Onu \u2013 Ebonyi State \u2013 Minister of Science and Technology<\/p>\n 14. Osagie Ehanire \u2014 Edo State \u2013 Minister of Health<\/p>\n 15. Clement Ike \u2013 Edo State \u2014 Minister of State for Budget<\/p>\n 16. Richard Adeniyi Adebayo \u2013 Ekiti State \u2013 Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment<\/p>\n 17. Geoffrey Onyeama \u2013 Enugu State \u2013 Minister of Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n 18. Ali Isa Pantami \u2013 Gombe State \u2013 Minister of Communication<\/p>\n 19. Emeka Nwajiuba \u2013 Imo State \u2013 Minister of State for Education<\/p>\n 20. Suleiman Adamu \u2013 Jigawa State \u2013 Minister of Water Resources<\/p>\n 21. Zainab Ahmed \u2013 Kaduna State \u2013 Minister of Finance<\/p>\n 22. Muhammad Mahmood \u2013 Kaduna State \u2013 State Environment<\/p>\n 23. Sabo Nanono \u2013 Kano State \u2013 Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development<\/p>\n 24. Bashir Salihi Magashi \u2013 Kano State \u2013 Minister of Defence<\/p>\n 25. Hadi Sirika \u2013 Katsina State \u2013 Minister of Aviation<\/p>\n 26. Abubakar Malami \u2013 Kebbi State \u2013 Minister of Justice\/Attorney General of the Federation<\/p>\n 27. Ramatu Tijjani \u2013 Kogi State \u2013 Minister of State, Federal Capital Territory (FCT)<\/p>\n 28. Lai Mohammed \u2013 Kwara State \u2013 Minister of Information and Culture<\/p>\n 29. Gbemisola Saraki \u2013 Kwara State \u2013 Minister of State, Transportation<\/p>\n 30. Babatunde Fashola \u2013 Lagos State \u2013 Minister of Works and Housing<\/p>\n 31. Adeleke Mamora \u2013 Lagos State \u2013 Minister of State for Health<\/p>\n 32. Mohammed H. Abdullahi \u2013 Nasarawa State \u2013 Minister of State, Science and Technology<\/p>\n 33. Zubair Dada \u2013 Niger State \u2013 Minister of State, Foreign Affairs<\/p>\n 34. Olamilekan Adegbite \u2013 Ogun State \u2013 Minister of Mines and Steel Development<\/p>\n 35. Tayo Alasoadura \u2013 Ondo State \u2013 Minister of State, Labour and Employment<\/p>\n 36. Rauf Aregbesola \u2013 Osun State \u2013 Minister Interior<\/p>\n 37. Sunday Dare \u2013 Oyo State \u2013 Minister of Youth and Sports<\/p>\n 38. Paulen Tallen \u2013 Plateau State \u2013 Minister of Women Affairs<\/p>\n 39. Rotimi Amaechi \u2013 Rivers State \u2013 Minister of Transportation<\/p>\n 40. Maigari Dingyadi \u2013 Sokoto State \u2013 Minister of Police Affairs<\/p>\n 41. Sale Mamman \u2013 Taraba State \u2013 Minister of Power<\/p>\n 42. Abubakar D. Aliyu \u2013 Yobe State \u2013 Minister of State, Works and Housing<\/p>\n 43. Sadiya Umar Faruk \u2013 Zamfara State \u2013 Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Disaster Management<\/p>\n 44.\u00a0Dr. Ikechukwu Ogah \u2013 Abia State \u2013 Minister of State Mines and Steel<\/p>\n \n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Orji Sampson President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday\u00a0assigned portfolios to the 43 newly inaugurated ministers\u00a0as Prof<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-view-point"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","elegant-magazine-featured":"","elegant-magazine-medium":"","elegant-magazine-medium-small":"","elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":""},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"News Digest<\/a>","tag_info":"News Digest","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25777"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25778,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25777\/revisions\/25778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}