President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday, 11th November 2015 inaugurated his cabinet made up of 36 ministers. Dawn-To-Dusk News reveals the profiles of the 36 ministers who would be working with the President to achieve his transformational agenda.

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DR. OKECHUKWU ENELAMAH (Minister of Foreign Affairs)
Born fifty years ago, Dr Okechukwu Enyinna Enelamah hails from Abia state. He earned a Bachelor of Medicine from the University of Nigeria in 1985. He also qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 and capped it with an MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1994. Enelamah was senior Consultant with Arthur Anderson & Co and also worked at Goldman Sachs in New York and London.





ALH. MUHAMMED BELLO (Minister of Federal Capital Territory, FCT)
Born January 8, 1959, Muhammed Musa Bello from Adamawa State attended Our Lady’s High School, Kaduna, Barewa College, Zaria and the School of Basic Studies, Ahmadu Bello University Zaria. Bello graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration in 1980 and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration in 1986. Muhammed Musa Bello has had wide professional experience in the private and public sectors of the national economy. For 20 years, Bello served as Director and Board member of Bello Holdings Ltd from 1987. And from 1988 to 1993, he served as member of the Adamawa Chamber of Commerce, Industry, Mines and Agriculture (ACCIMA). Muhammed Musa Bello was Vice-Chairman of the Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Taraba, and Yobe States branch of the Manufacturers’ Association of Nigeria (MAN).



SENATOR UDOMA UDO UDOMA(Minister of Budget and National Planning)
Sen. Udoma Udo Udoma was born on 26th February 1954. He is from Akwa Ibom State. A legal luminary, businessman and politician, Senator Udoma Udo Udoma attended Kings College Lagos. He proceeded to Oxford University, England, where he graduated with a Law Degree and was called to the Bar in 1978. Senator Udoma Udo Udoma served as a distinguished Senator of the Federal Republic of Nigeria for two terms between 1999 and 2007. He was Chief Whip of the senate from 2004 to 2007. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Lagos before he went into business in 1980. Senator Udoma is currently Chairman and Director of flourishing companies.



SENATOR (DR.) CHRIS NGIGE (Minister of Labour & Employment)
Senator Chris Nwabueze Ngige, born 8th of August 1952 in Enugu, is from Anambra State. He attended St. Johns Secondary School, Alor, Anambra State and proceeded to the University of Nigeria Nsukka, where he obtained a Bachelor’s Degree in Surgery in 1979. Senator Ngige was Governor of Anambra State between 2003 and 2006 and represented Anambra Central Senatorial District from 2011 to 2015. Before joining politics, he was Medical Officer, National Assembly Clinic, Victoria Island, Lagos and Physician to the Senate President in 1983; He was a Consultant and Assistant Director in charge of Federal Medical Centres, Federal Ministry of Health, between 1994 and 1997 and rose to become a Deputy Director.



SENATOR HEINEKEN LOKPOBIRI(State Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development)
Born 3rd March, 1967, Senator Heineken Lokpobiri from Bayelsa State, studied law at the University of Port-Harcourt in 1994 and was called to the Bar in 1995. He has a Master’s Degree in Law (LLM) from Lead Metropolitan University, United Kingdom. Senator Lokpobiri began his political career at the state level, where he represented Ekeremor Constituency II and was elected Speaker of the Bayelsa State House of Assembly in 1999. From 2003 to 2007, Senator Lokpobiri was a Principal Legal Director at Lokpobiri and Co (Legal Practitioners and Consultants) and also served as a member of the Board of Directors of Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria (FRCN). Senator Lokpobiri represented Bayelsa West Senatorial District in the 6th and 7th National Assembly of the Federal Republic of Nigeria where he chaired various committees including Committee on Water Resources, Sports and Social Development and Ad-Hoc Committee on the Investigation of the Transportation Sector.



MALLAM ADAMU ADAMU(Minister of Education)
Mallam Adamu Adamu was born in Azare, Katagum Local Government Area of Bauchi State. He attended Government Secondary School Azare between He obtained his B.Sc Degree in Accounting from Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria and also has a Masters Degree in Journalism from Columbia University. He started his working career as an accountant before joining the New Nigerian Newspapers as a Special Correspondent and Member, Editorial Board. He rose to become the Deputy Editor of the Daily Newspaper. Between 2000 and 2001, he was Secretary of Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF; Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the defunct Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), and Member/Secretary, Strategy Committee of the APC Presidential Transition Committee. Adamu Adamu is fluent in Arabic, Persian and French.



CHIEF AUDU OGBEH (Minister of Agriculute/Development)
Chief Audu Ogbeh who hails from Otukpo in Benue State was born 68 years ago. He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in French language from Ahmadu Bello University Zaria in 1972 and followed it up with a Masters Degree in Literature from the University of Toulouse, France in 1974.He was a lecturer at the Ahmadu Bello University Zaria from 1972 to 1977 and later became the Head of Department of Languages, Arts and Social sciences in the Benue State Polytechnic, Ugbokolo from 1977 to 1979.
Chief Audu Ogbeh was Deputy Speaker in the Benue State legislature from 1979 to 1982 before his appointment as a Minister of Communications and then Minister of Steel Development between 1982 and 1983 . Chief Audu Ogbeh left politics for agricultural business and consultancy in 1984 but came back to team up with the Dr Alex Ekwueme Presidential Campaign in 1998 as its Director-General. Between 2001 and 2005, Chief Audu Ogbeh served as the National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party. He later joined forces with other democrats to work on the emergence of All Progressives Congress (APC) as the governing party in Nigeria.





HON. MUSTAPHA SHEHURI
Hon. Shehuri was born on July 4th , 1961. He attended Gamboru Primary School, Maiduguri and Government Secondary School, Damagun, Borno. He graduated from the University of Maiduguri in 2007 with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Sociology and Anthropology. Honourable Shehuri served as a Councillor representing the Lamisula/ Jabbamari Ward of Maiduguri Metropolitan under the old non-party electoral system from 1996 to 1997.
He also served as Council Chairman of Maiduguri Metropolitan Council under the defunct Grassroots Democratic Movement (GDM) from 1997 to 1998. Between 1999 and 2003, Hon. Shehuri was a member of the State House of Assembly, representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan State Constituency on the platform of the defunct All Peoples Party (APP). He was a member of the House of Representatives from 2007 to 2011, representing the Maiduguri Metropolitan Federal Constituency on the platform of the defunct ANPP.



MR. USANI UGURU (Minister of Niger-Delta)
Mr. Usani Uguru hails from Cross River State. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Geography from the University of Jos, Masters Degree in Business Administration from the University of Calabar; and another Masters degree in Globalisation and Development from the University of London. He is currently a Ph.D student of the Nigerian Defence Academy. Until his appointment as a minister, Usani was the Coordinating Director of Fuzel Mining and Construction Company Limited. He is the current Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), in Cross Rivers State.



DR. IBE KACHIKWU (State Minister of Petroleum Resources)
Dr. Ibe Kachikwu was born on the 18th of December, 1956 at Onicha-Ugbo, Delta State. He had his primary education at St. Pius Xth Grammar School, Delta before proceeding to Edo College, Benin City for his Secondary School education. Kachukwu studied law at the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, where he graduated top of his class in 1978. In the same year, he proceeded to the Nigerian Law School where he graduated top of the class again, bagging 5 of the available 7 top prizes. Dr Kachukwu also attended Harvard University, Cambridge, where he obtained a Masters Degree in Law and a Doctorate Degree in Law respectively. Kachikwu is The Group Managing Director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). Prior to his appointment as the GMD of NNPC, he was the Executive Vice Chairman of Mobil Producing Nigeria Unlimited and the General Counsel for ExxonMobil Nigeria.



DR. OGBONNAYA ONU(Minister of Science and Technology)
Dr. Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu was born 64 years ago in Ebonyi State. He attended Mary Knoll College, Ogoja, Cross River State, Izzi High School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State and the College of Immaculate Conception, Enugu. He obtained a First Class Honours Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Lagos. He also obtained a Doctorate of Philosophy (PH.D) Degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. For a brief period, he was a Teaching Assistant at the Department of Chemical Engineering at his alma mater, University of California, Berkeley. He was also a member of the Research Centre of Western Electric Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
On his return to Nigeria, Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu became the pioneer Head of Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Port Harcourt, Rivers State. Dr. Onu was a former Governor of Old Abia State, made up of today’s Abia and Ebonyi States. He has also been National Chairman of the defunct All Nigerian Peoples Party (ANPP), a position he held until the party teamed up with other progressive parties to form the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).





DR. OSAGIE EHANIRE (State Minister of Health)
Dr Osagie Ehanire from Oredo Local Government Area of Edo State was born on November 4th 1946. A medical doctor, he attended Government College Ibadan, Oyo for his West African School Certificate as well as Higher School Certificate (HSC) and passed the latter with distinction.
He is a graduate of Medicine form the University of Munich. In 1976 he attended the prestigious Royal College of Surgeon in Ireland, Dublin where he obtained Post Graduate Diploma in Anaesthetics as well as Certificates in General Surgery and Orthopaedic Trauma Surgery and became a fellow of the famous West African College of Surgeons (FWACS) in 1984.
Dr. Ehanire has worked extensively in Germany as resident Anesthesiologist, resident Vascular Surgeon and resident general surgeon in Thoracic Surgery at various hospitals. He returned to Nigeria in 1982 to work at the Department of Surgery (Orthopaedic Surgery) University of Benin Teaching Hospital up till 1984 after which he joined Shell Development Company (SPDC) Hospital Warri between 1985 and 1990. Dr. Ehanire has served at various times as a prominent member of the Boards of Edo State Health Management Board and T.Y Danjuma Foundation among others . As a leader of the CPC in Edo State, Dr Ehanire worked towards the emergence of the APC as a formidable party and was also a member of the Buhari Campaign Organisation.


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