President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday afternoon named Solomon Dalong as the new sports and youth minister during the inauguration of 36 ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

51-year-old Dalong, a lawyer, hails from Langtang South Local Government Area. Plateau State.

Similarly, A new permanent secretary, Christian Ohaa, was yesterday appointed for the ministry of sports.

Barrister Solomon Dalong was born on the 26th of September 1964. Dalong attended LEA Primary School Sabon Gida from 1971 to 1977. He then proceeded to Government College Keffi, now in Nassarawa State, for his secondary school education.

Dalong joined the Nigerian Prisons Service in the early eighties and in 1991 while still in the Prisons Service, Dalong enrolled to study Law at the Law Faculty of the University of Jos. He proceeded to the Nigerian Law School, Bwari, in Abuja, graduated in 2000 and was called to the Bar in 2001.

He worked as Personal Assistant to Chief Solomon Lar when Lar was appointed as Adviser Emeritus to President Olusegun Obasanjo, until 2004 when he took up an appointment with the Faculty of Law of the University of Jos as a lecturer. In 2005, he combined his job as a lecturer and study while pursuing a prost graduate degree in Law, which he finished n 2007.

In the same 2007, Dalong was appointed the Chairman of Langtang South Local Government Area. He returned to the University of Jos in 2008 at the expiration of his tenure.

Dalong joined the Prisons Service as a Prison Assistant and rose to the rank of Assistant Inspector of Prisons. He was moved to the legal department of prisons where he served as Legal Officer II in the prisons headquarters before his retirement.

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A former Prisons ASP now minister of sport.... hahaha... who no report to camp on time go see Himself behind bars. No time wasting.


Nonchalant sports men and women take note.

Wen is nigeria govt going to get thngs right? Going through the profile of that sport minister, shows that he is not a sport specialist? Lawyer becoming sport minister!! God helps nigeria!

abeysticks:
Wen is nigeria govt going to get thngs right? Going through the profile of that sport minister, shows that he is not a sport specialist? Lawyer becoming sport minister!! God helps nigeria!

As Fela talk am Lawyer wey dey act like Carpentar na suegbe eee!!! Thats whats killing Nigeria, we give the job to the unqualified. Pres. Buhari dissapointed me oo...