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Here are some of the key figures in Nigeria’s new cabinet, which was announced on Wednesday, more than five months after President Muhammadu Buhari took office:

– Kemi Adeosun (finance) –kachu

The 48-year-old was born and raised in London, where she studied economics and public financial management, going on to become a senior manager at PricewaterhouseCoopers.

A trained accountant, she was until recently finance commissioner in the southwest Nigerian state of Ogun, where she was credited with turning around public finances.

Before that she was managing director at Nigerian investment bank Chapel Hill Denham, according to her LinkedIn profile.

She lacks the high profile of her predecessor, former World Bank executive Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, but is said to be a reformist and high on integrity — a key quality Buhari is trying to push.

– Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu (petroleum resources) –

Kachikwu, 58, was appointed in August as the group managing director of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) and immediately tasked with overhauling the notoriously opaque firm.

The lawyer and former ExxonMobil executive was seen as a shoe-in for the junior oil minister’s post after Buhari announced he would take personal charge of the oil portfolio.

He has already brought dramatic changes to the corruption-ridden NNPC, ordering a forensic audit of its accounts and the publication of oil receipts for the first time.

He has pledged to bring transparency and accountability to the state-run NNPC’s operations and trimmed senior management positions.

“Things have been done wrongly and things need to be done differently,” he said recently.

– Muhammad Mansur Dan-Ali (defence) –

Retired Brigadier-General Muhammad Mansur Dan-Ali, from Zamfara state in northwest Nigeria, is a career soldier who rose through the ranks to hold several posts, including artillery commander.

The 56-year-old also commanded a Nigerian battalion as part of a UN mission in Sudan as well as being an instructor at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Abuja.

Dan-Ali, who retired from military service in 2013, takes over the defence portfolio as troops seek to rout Boko Haram by year end.

Six years of Islamist violence has left at least 17,000 dead in Nigeria’s northeast and made more than 2.5 million people homeless, while under the previous administration military morale was dented.

– Abdulrahman Dambazau (interior) –

Retired Lieutenant-General Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau, 61, was chief of army staff under former president Umaru Yar’Adua from 2008 to 2010 and had been tipped for the defence portfolio.

But the US-trained former soldier, who holds degrees in criminal justice, international relations and criminology can bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the role.

He was a part-time criminology lecturer at the law faculty of Ahmadu Bello University in Zaria, Kaduna, and has authored several books both on the military and criminal law.

Dambazau was on active service when Buhari was military ruler in the 1980s and headed the security committee of the now-defunct Congress for Progressive Change when Buhari was its presidential candidate in 2011.

He was also head of intelligence and security for the All Progressives Congress (APC), which now governs Nigeria at federal level.

– Geoffrey Onyeama (foreign affairs) –

The 59-year-old graduated in political science from Columbia University in New York in 1977, and also has degrees in law from the London School of Economics and from Cambridge.

Between 1986 and 1996, Onyeama, a qualified barrister in Britain and Nigeria, was an intellectual property specialist who has worked extensively with the United Nations on development in Africa.

Source:http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/11/key-figures-in-buharis-new-cabinet-and-profile/

Seun, lalasticlala

All i see are the list of knights of Camelot and my sai Buhari king Arthur, he picked the right individuals with the right qualifications at the right portfolios.


I see this man transforming (oh sorry transforming is for the old administration) CHANGING this nation for good. The same way the knights of the round table achieved so much success that's the same way my sai Buhari's ministers will achieve success.

Men like Fashola is like Messi in your team, he will change the power sector for good. Time is coming when power failures will be a thing of the past.

Sai Buhari

Without Fashola and Ameachi who are holding key ministries, this list is [size=50pt]incomplete![/size]

Seriously waiting for Ndigbo president to instruct his brothers to turn down those appointments... bunch of jokers. Well i was expecting fashola on that list cuz he seems to be the one with the most cumbersome portfolio

Chai!! Nigerian get acid mouth hehe
650 likes for that guy's post.

ramdris:
Without Fashola and Ameachi who are holding key ministries, this list is [size=50pt]incomplete![/size]

you are correct

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the main figures remains FASHOLA AND AMAECHI... i pity IPob miscreants because the new interior and defence ministers are no-nonsense dudes

Great team.

Let us support them in prayers.

PMB has shown good leadership and has returned Nigeria to seriousness. Let us support him.

This is no jamboree. Quite a number of these ministers are hardworking.

Good move.

THE LIST IS NOT COMPLETE

The hell is Fashola??

Muhammandu Buhari=Minister of Petroleum, biggest minister in Bubu's govt.

Scam of the highest order.

OP, do you not mean:

Kachichkwu
1. Fashola
2. Kemi
3. Enelamah
4. Audu
5. Fayemi
6. Amaechi
7. Malami
8. Danbazzau
9. Dan-Alli
10. Geoffrey?

I didn't number Kachichkwu cos his importance is immeasurable!

yellow are already lamenting that tinybu boy fashola is not on the list Op why.....

Good let them remain the key factors

Amaechi and fasholq will be the padlock factors

Afterall u can duplicate KEY but u can't duplicate PADLOCK

Nice

Enough of the jamboree


They should hit the ground running!!! Since the Dullard failed to do so.

counted 2 igbos, one yoruba. I no fit laugh at our 'change agents'

Have you seen why 97% cannot move without 5% ? ? ?

Watching

So Fashola the man ministering three powerful portfolios is not a key figure. I am not satisfied with the content of this article.

Click LIKE if you think Oga BRF deserves to be on this article.

all I know is politriks is ungodly. dinnning with d devil.I wish them all d best.my score card is after 3yearz .who knows SDP might rule again

Where is Fashola
D list is incomplete op u hear

Ok

where is Fashola, Amaechi and buhari.. Without them the list is incomplete

All d peoples celebrated here are foreign products, wat happens to nigeria product, are our institution nt up to standard?

Even if PMB appoints a monkey as minister they will all perform since ether are aware that PMB does not consoles corruption and cluelessness! !!!!

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ɮɛċaʊsɛ աɛ ɦaʋɛ ɮɛɛռ աaɨtɨռɢ ʄօʀ ɖɨɖ ʍsօ ċaʟʟɛɖ ɦɛaʋɛռʟʏ ʍɨռɨstɛʀs ʄօʀ ʍօռtɦs....aռɖ աɦɛռ ɖɛʏ աɛʀɛ ʟɨstɛɖ...ɨt աas ɖ saʍɛ ċʀɨʍɨռaʟs ɖat աɛ sʊʀɛ tɦɛʀɛ.....sօ աɦɛʀɛ ɨs ɖ ċɦaռɢɛ
aʍɛaċɦɨ ʍɨռɨstɛʀ օʄ tʀaռsքօʀtatɨօռ.... sօʍɛօռɛ ɖat ɖɨɖռ't ɛʋɛռ ʄɨռɨsɦ ɖ քʀօʝɛċts ɦɛ staʀtɛɖ ɨռ ʀɨʋɛʀs....

lets get our fingers cross......

Okay...