BREAKING: Shekarau now Education Minister, Adeyeye, others get portfolio
Suleiman Bello
A former Kano State Governor, Malam Ibrahim Shekarau, has been sworn-in as Education minister.
Prince Dayo Adeyeye is now Minister of State for Works; Stephen Oru now head Ministry of Niger Delta Affairs while Abdul Bulama is now Minister of Science and Technology.
The four new ministers were inaugurated on Wednesday morning at the weekly Federal Executive Council meeting.
At the inauguration, President Jonathan also announced that the Minister of Works, Alhaji Bashir Yuguda, will now move to the Ministry of National Planning and also serve as the Minister of State for Finance to replace. Yerima Ngama who resigned.