{"id":35380,"date":"2021-09-01T14:42:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35380"},"modified":"2021-09-01T14:42:22","modified_gmt":"2021-09-01T13:42:22","slug":"for-first-time-in-six-years-buhari-sacks-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/?p=35380","title":{"rendered":"For first time in six years, Buhari sacks ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the first time in six years, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, sacked two ministers. They are Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono and the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar takes over the Agriculture portfolio, while Abubakar Aliu, Minister of State for Works, takes over from Mamman Sale as the Minister of Power.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Buhari announced the minor reshufflement during the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A statement later by the Presidency and signed by the President&#8217;s spokesman, Mr. Femi Adesina said the President has approved a reshuffle in the cabinet formed on August 21, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It reads further: &#8220;In a statement to cabinet members during the\u00a0\u00a0Federal Executive Council meeting on Wednesday 1st September, President Buhari announced that\u00a0Mohammed Sabo Nanono,\u00a0Minister of Agriculture\u00a0and\u00a0Rural Development, and\u00a0Engr. Sale Mamman,\u00a0Minister of Power\u00a0were leaving the cabinet.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;In the same vein,\u00a0Dr. Mohammad Mahmood Abubakar,\u00a0Minister of Environment, was redeployed to assume office as the\u00a0Minister of Agriculture &amp; Rural Development, while\u00a0Engr. Abubakar D. Aliyu,\u00a0Minister of State, Works &amp; Housing\u00a0will now be the\u00a0Minister of Power.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;The President said the changes were sequel to the \u201ctradition of subjecting our projects and programs implementation to independent and critical self-review\u201d through sector reporting during Cabinet meetings and at retreats.<\/p>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;He added that \u201cthese significant review steps have helped to identify and strengthen weak areas, close gaps, build cohesion and synergy in governance, manage the economy and improve the delivery of public good to Nigerians.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in six years, President Muhammadu Buhari, on Wednesday, sacked two ministers. They are Minister of Agriculture, Sabo Nanono and the Minister of Power, Mamman Sale The Minister of Environment, Mohammed Mahmoud Abubakar takes over the Agriculture portfolio, while Abubakar Aliu, Minister of State for Works, takes over from Mamman Sale as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":30410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[31,1374,1536],"class_list":["post-35380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jobs","tag-buhari","tag-ministers","tag-two"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/everyday.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}