{"id":3659,"date":"2024-11-03T03:38:27","date_gmt":"2024-11-03T03:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/?p=3659"},"modified":"2024-11-03T03:43:24","modified_gmt":"2024-11-03T03:43:24","slug":"senate-confirms-ministers-following-president-tinubus-cabinet-reshuffle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/senate-confirms-ministers-following-president-tinubus-cabinet-reshuffle\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Confirms Ministers, following President Tinubu\u2019s Cabinet Reshuffle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The long-anticipated \u2018rejig\u2019 of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s cabinet concluded with the confirmation of seven ministerial nominees by the Senate. The Presidency had earlier released a statement on 23rd<\/sup> October 2024, announcing the dismissal of five ministers, the re-assignment of ten ministers to other ministries and the nomination of seven persons for appointment as ministers, as follows: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Nentawe Yilwatda \u2013 Minister of Humanitarian Affairs\nand Poverty Reduction<\/li>
  2. Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi \u2013 Minister of Labour and\nEmployment <\/li>
  3. Bianca Odinaka Odumegwu-Ojukwu \u2013 Minister of State,\nForeign Affairs <\/li>
  4. Rt. Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Ata \u2013 Minister of State,\nHousing and Urban Development <\/li>
  5. Idi Mukhtar Maiha \u2013 Minister of Livestock\nDevelopment <\/li>
  6. Dr. Jumoke Oduwole \u2013 Minister of Industry, Trade\nand Investment <\/li>
  7. Suwaiba Said Ahmad \u2013 Minister of State, Education <\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Ministers who were dismissed include: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    1. Uju Ken Ohanenye <\/li>
    2. Lola Ade-John <\/li>
    3. Tahir Mamman<\/li>
    4. Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo <\/li>
    5. Jamila Bio Ibrahim<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

      In plenary on Wednesday, 30th<\/sup> October,\nthe Senate admitted each of the seven nominees into the chambers and questioned\nthem, after which they were confirmed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      It will be recalled that President Tinubu nominated\n48 persons for appointment as ministers in July 2023. They were screened by the\nSenate between July and August 2023, and 45 were confirmed and later sworn in\nby the President. However, in January 2024, President Tinubu suspended the then\nMinister of Humanitarian Affairs, Betta Edu following allegations of approval for\ntransfer of public funds to a private account. She has now been replaced by\nNentawe Yilwatda, who has been appointed to take over the affairs of the ministry.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

      Nigerians have questioned some of decisions of the President Tinubu-led\nadministration, such as the creation of a Livestock Development Ministry, the\nappointment of seven ministers after the dismissal of five ministers, which\nbrings the total number of ministers to 47, from the initial number of 45.  For some observers, this represents an undue\nincrease to an already large cabinet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

      While Tinubu\u2019s administration has presented this reshuffle as a move to\nimprove “optimal efficiency” and enhance responsiveness to Nigeria\u2019s\nchallenges, public sentiment remains mixed. In the eyes of many citizens, the\nreshuffle reflects more about political maneuvering than meaningful reform,\nwith the administration\u2019s impact on everyday hardships outweighing promises of\neconomic restructuring. The real challenge, they argue, lies in alleviating the\npressures on Nigeria\u2019s economy and restoring trust through measurable\nimprovements in public welfare\u2014something that no reshuffling alone can achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      The long-anticipated \u2018rejig\u2019 of President Bola Tinubu\u2019s cabinet concluded with the confirmation of seven ministerial nominees by the Senate. The Presidency had earlier released a statement on 23rd October 2024, announcing the dismissal of five ministers, the re-assignment of ten ministers to other ministries and the nomination of seven persons for appointment as ministers, as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3659"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3663,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3659\/revisions\/3663"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/Legist\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}