Buhari names Fashola Minister of Power, Works and Housing

President Buhari was speaking at the Council Chambers of the Aso Rock Presidential Villa in Abuja shortly after swearing in 16 of the 18 newly appointed permanent secretaries.

Buhari swore 36 ministers into his cabinet on Wednesday, five months after his inauguration.

She inherits a state treasury that the president said has been looted – the former Central Bank governor said $20 billion went missing from oil sales over three years – and must juggle the administration’s desire to almost double spending despite shrinking revenue.

Buhari himself has said he will be oil minister, overseeing reforms to the notoriously murky sector at a time of low global crude prices that have hurt government revenues badly.

Mr. Onu, who spoke on Wednesday night at a reception organised in his honour by Concerned Ebonyi State Indigenes, pledged to work assiduously to emerge as the best minister the country ever produced. Speaker, House of Representatives; The Chief Justice of Nigeria, Rt. Hon. James Ocholi was named justice minister.

The Nigerian leader kept to his words by pruning the number of ministries in his administration by either scrapping or merging nearly 10 offices.

Nigeria’s new foreign minister is Geoffrey Onyeama, an intellectual property lawyer. In addition, he stated that the citizens now listen to the government as he will work towards reducing poverty in the country. WE Nigerians, expect Buhari & his ministers to push Nigeria from where it is today, because there will be no excuse for failure.

“But in Nigeria, looking back at the situations we have had before, waiting so long to appoint ministers has become very necessary because they will be the drivers of the economy”, said Chinonso Okafor, a lecturer at the Abia State University in Nigeria.

“I have also been conscious of the need not to repeat such mistakes of the past where the right people were allocated the wrong portfolios, which translated into their performing poorly to our collective detriment despite their obvious capabilities. And I need your prayers; I need your support”, he said. A few of the ministries have more than one ministers, a few being junior or state ministers.

He said the administration would pursue policies that would generate employment, improve security, tackle corruption and rout Boko Haram insurgency and other social vices.