President inaugurates Obanikoro, others as ministers

President Goodluck Jonathan on Wednesday, 17th March, 2015 inaugurated the eight new ministers recently confirmed by the Senate during which some of the Senators walked out of the Chamber in anger when they stood against the candidature of Musiliu Obanikoro.

The President thereafter assigned portfolios to them as follows: Senator Patricia Akwashiki as Information Minister ; Prof. Nicholas Ada as Minister of State, Foreign Affairs I; Senator Musiliu Obanikoro (State, Foreign Affairs II); Col. Augustine Akobundu (retd.) (State, Defence); Mr. Fidelis Nwankwo (State, Health); Mrs. Hauwa Bappa (State, Niger Delta Affairs); Mr. Kenneth Kobani (State, Industry, Trade and Investment); and Senator Joel Ikeya (Labour and Productivity).

The President also named the Minister of State, Health, Khaliru Alhassan, as the Minister of Health. Alhassan has been acting as Supervising Minister of Health since Prof. Onyebuchi Ckukwu resigned in 2014.