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.Known Your Ministers<\/b><\/p>\n
After 12 years, Imo State bagged a top ministerial post, when Ms Doris Anite Uzoka, a former Finance Commissioner in the State, was named as substantive Minister of Industry Trade, and Investment by President Bola Tinubu.<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n Since 2011, the State has occupied junior Minister position or \u201cMinister of State\u201d in the Federal Executive Council.<\/p>\n After Dr (Mrs) Kema Chikwe was appointed Minister of Transport and later Aviation, by President Olusegun Obasanjo in 1999, a full ministerial position has eluded the State as successive administrations gave the junior Minister position to ministerial nominees from Imo State.<\/p>\n President Goodluck Jonathan had appointed Prof (Mrs) Viola Onwuliri, Minister of State, Foreign Affairs 1 and later Minister of State, Education from June 2011- May 2015.<\/p>\n President Muhammadu Buhari appointed Prof Anthony Anwuka Minister of State, Education from 2015- 2019.<\/p>\n Dr. Emeka Nwajiuba was also appointed Minister of State, Education, from 2019- 2022 before he resigned to vie for the Presidential ticket of the All Progressives Congress, APC.<\/p>\n Hon Goodluck Opiah, who replaced Nwajiuba, was also appointed Minister of State for Education from 2022- May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" .Known Your Ministers After 12 years, Imo State bagged a top ministerial post, when Ms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-frontpage"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",700,377,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2-300x162.jpg",300,162,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",640,345,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",640,345,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",700,377,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",700,377,false],"elegant-magazine-featured":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",700,377,false],"elegant-magazine-medium":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",700,377,false],"elegant-magazine-medium-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",300,162,false],"elegant-magazine-thumbnail-small":["https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Imo-2.jpg",50,27,false]},"author_info":{"info":["Imo Trumpeta"]},"category_info":"Frontpage<\/a>","tag_info":"Frontpage","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151","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=41151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41152,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41151\/revisions\/41152"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/27873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.imotrumpeta.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}