Buhari inaugurates cabinet, Fashola to head power, works and housing ministry

Buhari inaugurates cabinet, Fashola to head power, works and housing ministry

Buhari inaugurates cabinet, Fashola to head power, works and housing ministry

President Muhammadu Buhari on
Wednesday inaugurated 36 ministers as
members of the Federal Executive
Council five months after his
inauguration.
His cabinet is smaller than that of his
predecessor, Goodluck Jonathan, who
had 42 ministers. Under the constitution,
the president must include a member
from each of the country’s 36 states.
To set the tone for today’s swearing-in,
President Buhari, yesterday appointed
new 17 permanent secretaries and
reshuffled all current permanent
secretaries.
The full list of the ministers and their
portfolios is below:
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