The Acting President, Yemi Osinbajo, has sworn in two new ministers into the federal cabinet.
Stephen Ocheni from Kogi State and Suleiman Hassan from Gombe State were screened and confirmed by the Senate in May and have been waiting to be brought into the federal cabinet.
They were sworn in Wednesday morning at the council chamber of the Presidential Villa before the commencement of the weekly meeting of the Federal Executive council, FEC.
Osinbajo said the portfolios of the two new ministers ” will be announced shortly.”
President Muhammadu Buhari has nominated Ocheni and Hassan to fill the vacant ministerial positions in the Federal Executive Council.
Ocheni is from Kogi State which has not had anyone in the FEC, as constitutionally required, since the death of James Ochonu in an accident last year.
Hassan, from Gombe State, is to replace Amina Mohammed who left Nigeria’s public service to take up top responsibility at the United Nations.
Ocheni, born in 1959, hails from Uwowo in Igalamela local government area of Kogi State.
Currently, he is a professor of Public Sector Accounting and Dean, Faculty of Management Sciences at Kogi State University.
Previously, he was a Director, Finance and Accounts, in the Federal Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2010 – 2013), and Director, Office of the Accountant-General of the Federation (2003 – 2010).
Hassan is a politician and chairman of the defunct Congress of Progressive Change in Gombe State.
