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At last, Tinubu sacks five ministers, makes seven fresh nomination
By Francesca Hangeior.
At last, president Bola Tinubu has reshuffle his cabinet appointing seven new ministers.
This development is coming few months after growing calls for the President to rejig his cabinet.
In a statement issued by the presidency after the federal executive council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, president Tinubu re-assigned 10 ministers to new ministerial portfolios and appointed seven new ministers for Senate confirmation.
The president on Wednesday, during the Federal Executive Council (FEC), announced the sack of Uju-Ken Ohanenye as Minister of Women Affairs; Lola Ade-John as Minister of Tourism; Tahir Mamman as Minister of Education; Abdullahi Gwarzo as Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development; and Jamila Ibrahim as Minister of Youth Development.
Tinubu subsequently nominated Bianca Odumegu-Ojukwu as the Minister of State Foreign Affairs, while Nentawe Yilwatda as the Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, officially bringing an end to the tenure of suspended Betta Edu.
The President also nominated Maigari Dingyadi as the Minister of Labour and Employment, Jumoke Oduwole as the Minister of Industry, Idi Maiha as Minister for the newly created Livestock Development Ministry, Yusuf Ata as the Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development, with Suwaiba Ahmad as Minister of State Education.
Earlier on Wednesday, the President scrapped the Ministry of Nigeria Delta Development and announced the Ministry of Regional Development as a replacement to oversee the activities of all the regional development commissions.
The regional development commissions to be under the supervision of the new Ministry are the Niger Delta Development Commission, the South East Development Commission, the North East Development and the North West Development Commission.
Tinubu also scrapped the Ministry of Sports Development and transferred its functions to the National Sports Commission to “develop a vibrant sports economy”.
The President further approved the merger of the Federal Ministry of Tourism and the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture to become the Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and the Creative Economy.
“The appointment of Shehu Dikko as Chairman of the National Sports
Commission.
“The appointment of Sunday Akin Dare as Special Adviser to the president on Public Communication and Orientation working from the ministry of Information and National Orientation,” the President said.
The President appreciated the outgoing members of the Federal Executive Council for their service to the nation while wishing them the best in their
future endeavours.
He then charged the newly appointed ministers as well as their reassigned colleagues to see their appointment as a call to serve the nation.
He added that all appointees must understand the administration’s eagerness and determination to set Nigeria on the path to irreversible growth and invest the best of their abilities into the actualisation of the government’s priorities.
It could be recalled that Tinubu, the All Progressives Congress (APC) chieftain, appointed 48 ministers in August 2023, three months after his inauguration.
The Senate immediately screened and confirmed the ministers. One of the ministers, Betta Edu, was suspended in January while another, Simon Lalong, moved to the Senate.
There have been growing calls for the President to reshuffle his cabinet as many Nigerians are not impressed by the performance of some of the ministers, especially in the face of unprecedented inflation, excruciating economic situation and rising insecurity.
In September, presidential spokesman Bayo Onanuga said the President would reshuffle his cabinet but didn’t give a time to the reorganisation.
Nine surveyors who were kidnapped in Akure North council area of Ondo State have regained freedom after payment of N20m ransom.
Recall that the abductors had demanded for N100m ransom before the release of the victims.
The market women begged the kidnappers to reduce the ransom to N50m but they initially rejected.
Their release was confirmed by Pastor Ajibade Owolanke, a brother to the Ejemikin of Akure, High Chief, Oluwole Omotayo in Akure, the state capital.
Pastor Owolanke said that the victims have joined their individual family members.
The victims were taken to different hospitals after they were released by their abductors.
Recall that the victims were kidnapped a week ago while on site at Ilu-Abo, in Akure North council area of the state.
Irked by the state of insecurity in the state, market women and other Youths in Akure metropolis staged a protest on Tuesday and appealed to the governor, Dr Lucky Aiyedatiwa and the security chiefs in the state to halt the ugly development.
Details later…
Victoria Goodwin, the wife of a popular American actor who hired an assassin to kill him has been arrested.
She is the wife of American actor, Aaron Goodwin.
She allegedly hired a hitman to kill the actor barely two years after their wedding.
She was arrested on March 6 on charges of solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit murder after she allegedly plotted to have her husband killed, according to a TMZ report.
An arrest report obtained by the outlet said that Victoria Goodwin has denied the allegations.
The report cited a text message from Victoria Goodwin to an inmate in a Florida prison.
“Am I bad a person? Because I chose to end his existence. Not divorce,” she allegedly said in the text.
The plot was allegedly hatched in October 2024 and only discovered when correction officers seized the Florida inmate’s contraband phone.
Police said Victoria provided the whereabouts of her husband, who was filming ‘Ghost Adventures’ at the time in California, to the inmate via text, according to TMZ.
Victoria was going to pay the alleged hitman $11,515, police said, with an upfront payment of $2,500.
According to police, she admitted the pair were having “marital problems” but attributed the alleged exchanges with the inmate “daydreaming or fantasizing about being without her husband.”
The couple wed at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion in 2022.
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