Tinubu stated this in his address at 2023 Cabinet Retreat for Ministers, Presidential Aides, Permanent Secretaries and top government functionaries.
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With Nigerians clamouring for more transparency in governance, the Federal Government has put in motion plans for periodic assessments of cabinet ministers and the agencies under their supervision.
Immediate Past Board Member of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC), Prince Kunle Oyewumi has described the appointments of Dr Jamila Bio Ibrahim and Ayodele Olawande as Minister of Youth and Minister of State for Youth respectively as a welcome development.
As Minister of State for Education in the administration of General Sani Abacha, Malam Wada Nas stood out as a strong defender of the policies and person of the Head of state.
The House of Representatives ad hoc Committee investigating the failure of mass transit scheme in Nigeria has summoned the Minister of Finance, Wale Edun, over the failure of the scheme
Twice in one week, firstly while inaugurating the new ministers on August 21 and later speaking during the maiden Federal Executive Council meeting on August 28, President Bola Tinubu issued stern directives to the new ministers to immediately begin work and perform creditably in order to restore people’s faith in government. “Nigeria expect you to hit the ground running just as we had promised them during the campaigns. With your inauguration, you have become ministers of the Federal Republic, not ministers of a particular state or region,” the President told the new ministers as they were being inaugurated. And speaking during the first FEC meeting, he was firm and direct when he told the Ministers that he would not tolerate underperformance.
The Nigeria Employers’ Consultative Association (NECA) has urged the new Ministers to ensure focused and urgent action to change the economic narratives of the country.
Yesterday, 45 Ministers took the oath of office as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria pursuant to President Bola Ahmed Tinubu exercising executive powers as granted under Section 5 of the 1999 Constitution, and in line with Section 147(3). These Ministers of the “Restored Hope Agenda”, we are told, have a mandate to deliver Tinubu’s eight-point agenda as stated in his election manifesto to wit: national security, economy, agriculture, power, oil and gas, transportation, education, and healthcare, with special emphasis on economy and security.
Some residents of Bauchi and Gombe States have called for effective monitoring and supervision of ministers to promote good performances.
A former National Vice Chairman of the All Progressives Congress for the North West, Salihu Moh. Lukman, has said that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s choices of ministerial nominees did not do justice to his perceived capacity to headhunt for capable hands.
The event was valedictory session for appointees leaving the cabinet to pursue political ambitions at different levels.
Since the public got to know of the Nigeria Communications Commission-Nigeria in Diaspora Commission office allocation debacle, various sympathisers and sponsors have intervened. Besides stating the official position of NIDCOM in response to the NCC’s statement on this year’s Eid Fitr day, May 24, 2020, and the official response to another statement from NCC on May 29, 2020 by Dr. Henry Nkemadu of NCC, this is my first entry on the matter. It is basically intended to courteously offer fellow Nigerians some anticipated clarifications on some of the pending knotty issues.
The Catholic Archbishop of Lagos, Most Rev. Alfred Adewale Martins, has urged the newly inaugurated ministers to serve the country diligently and with a deep sense of patriotism.
There will be no difference in the performance of these men and women at the end of four years compared with cabinet members of the last four years.
President Muhammadu Buhari has retained 13 Ministers who were in his cabinet between 2015 and 2019.