President Jonathan has sworn-in four new ministers, who have been cleared by the National Assembly. The new ministers are Ibrahim Shekarau; a former Kano State governor, who decamped from APC to PDP, Stephen Oru, Adedayo Adeyeye and Abdul Bulama.
The President announced Mr. Shekarau as the new Education Minister; Mr. Adeyeye was named Minister of State for Works; Mr. Oru, Minister of Niger Delta; and Mr. Bulama, Minister of Science and Technology.
He also announced that the current Minister of Works, Bashir Yuguda, will now be the Minster of State for Finance and substantive Minister of National Planning.