At the State House Conference Center in the Presidential Villa in Abuja on Monday, President Bola Ahmed Tinubu formally inaugurated the Federal Executive Council (FEC) of 45 ministers.
The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Olukayode Awriola, administered the oaths of office to the seven distinct batches, each of which contained a number of ministers.
Vice President Kashim Shettima, Senate President Godswill Akpabio, Speaker of the House of Representatives Tajudeen Abass, Secretary to the Government of the Federation George Akume, Chief of Staff to the President Femi Gbajabiamila, Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State and Chairman of the Nigeria Governors Forum, and Governor Abdulaziz Abdulrahman of Kwara State were among those present, according to Gistlover.
The first group included Lateef Fagbemi, the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, as well as the Minister of State for Labor and Employment, Nkiruka Onyejeocha, the Minister of State for Gas in the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, Ekperikpe Ekpo, the Minister of Women’s Affairs, Uju Kennedy, and the Minister of Education, Tahir Maman.
Coordinating Minister of Health and Social Welfare Ali Pate, Minister of Foreign Affairs Yusuf Tuggar, Minister of State for Petroleum Resources Heineken Lokpobiri, Minister of Water Resources and Sanitation Joseph Utsev, and Minister of Agriculture and Food Security Abubakar Kyari are the members of the second group to be sworn in.
The third group of ministers to take the oath of office includes Betta Edu, Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation, John Enoh, Minister of Sports Development, Festus Keyamo, Minister of Aviation and Aerospace Development, Dave Umahi, Minister of Works, and Abubakar Momoh, Minister of Niger Delta Development.
Dele Alake, Minister of Solid Minerals Development, Uche Nnaji, Minister of Innovation, Science, and Technology, Doris Anite, Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Alkali Sa’id, and Mohammed Badaru, Minister of Defense, make up the fourth group of newly sworn-in ministers.
The fifth group of ministers to be sworn in includes Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development Abdullahi Gwarzo, Minister of State for the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Mariya Mahmud, Minister of Housing and Urban Development Ahmed Dangiwa, Minister for Art, Culture, and the Creative Economy Hannatu Musawa, and Minister of Budget and Economic Planning Atiku Bagudu.
Yusuf Sunumu, Minister of State for Education, Shuaibu Audu, Minister of State for Steel Development, Tunji Alausa, Minister of State for Health and Social Welfare, Lola Ade-John, and Imaan Sulaiman- Ibrahim, Minister of State for Police Affairs, make up the sixth group of ministers to be sworn in.
Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi, Minister of Agriculture and Food Security, Muhammed Idris, Minister of State Environment, Ishak Salako, Wale Edun, Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, and Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, make up the seventh group of ministers to be sworn in.
