……Malami resumes as AGF

At least twelve of the newly sworn-in ministers have retained the portfolios that they held during the first term tenure of President Muhammadu Buhari.

Buhari announced the portfolios assigned to the ministers after their swearing-in at the Aso Villa on Tuesday.

The ministers who retained their portfolios include, Chris Ngige (Minister of Labour and Employment) Rotimi Amaechi (Minister of Transportation), Hadi Sirika (Minister of Aviation), Geoffrey Onyeama (Minister of Foreign Affairs), Suleiman Adamu, (Minister of Water Resources), Mohammed Musa Bello (Minister of the Federal Capital Territory), Adamu Adamu (Minister of Education).

Others are Ogbonnaya Onu (Minister of Science and Technology), Suleiman Adamu (Minister of Water Resources), Zainab Ahmed (Minister of Finance), Abubakar Malami (Minister of Justice) and Lai Mohammed (Minister of Information and Culture).

….Malami resumes as AGF

The new Attorney-General of the Federation and Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami (SAN), resumed office at the headquarters of the Federal Ministry of Justice in Abuja on Wednesday.

He resumed office at about 2.40pm about one hour after he and 42 other ministers were sworn in and assigned portfolios by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday.

 

He arrived in a convoy with some aides and political associates.

He was received at the ministry by some cheering members of staff and directors in the ministers who were waiting for him at the ministers’ ‎car park on the premises of the ministry.

Malami served in the same capacity as the AGF in President Muhammadu Buhari’s first term in office.