President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has concluded plans for a shake-up of his cabinet soon, which will include the appointment of new ministers and the creation of a new ministry, Daily Trust gathered.

The new ministry will be for livestock development, a department hitherto under the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development, with the goal of driving the administration’s livestock master plan.

The Nigeria Livestock Master Plan, inaugurated in August, last year, was instituted to guide the development of the livestock sector which accounts for about one-third of the 21 per cent contribution that the agricultural sector makes to the national Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

A source said the new ministry was expected to take the lead in addressing the perennial farmer-herder clashes that had continued to have a debilitating impact on the country’s food security, as well as led to the loss of thousands of lives and property.

Another source hinted that the president decided to create the new ministry to drive his idea of ranching as a solution to the problem, which he said would see state governments provide lands for the federal government for the project.

More ministers

Sources told Daily Trust that aside from the creation of the new ministry, the cabinet reshuffle would see to the appointment of state ministers for most or all the ministries that currently only had one minister. Recall that some Nigerians criticised the president for operating what they termed “an overbloated cabinet.”

But the president, at the inception of his administration last year, justified the size of the cabinet, which initially comprised 48 members, including the suspended Betta Edu and Simon Lalong who resigned to take up a seat in the Senate.

“If you combine too many ministries because you want to save money, you will have a future of non-performance and no results,” the president argued.

The development will also see to the appointment of ministers for ministries that only have a minister of state, like Labour and Employment, as well as a minister for the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Alleviation which Minister, Betta Edu, has been on suspension since January 8.

Daily Trust reports that ministries without ministers of state are arts, culture and creative economy; foreign affairs; special duties and inter-governmental affairs; communications, innovation and digital economy; finance; marine and blue economy; solid minerals development; tourism; transportation; industry, trade and investment; innovation, science and technology; works; sports development; and women affairs.

Others are aviation and aerospace development; power; budget and economic planning; information and national orientation; justice; and Niger delta affairs.

Daily Trust gathered that while the president is expected to act on the assessment report of the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of the ministers by his Special Adviser on Policy Coordination, Hadiza Bala-Usman, political calculations may affect or tamper with his decision.

Ms Hadiza could not be reached for comment on the status of her assessment as at the time of filing this report, but in April, she said the citizens’ delivery tracker launched by the federal government would use empirical data to evaluate the performance of the ministers.

Meanwhile, the tracker is said to be a component and not the only yardstick used for the assessment of the KPIs of the ministers.


Upgrade for some, exit for others

One of the sources also disclosed that some ministers of state had been penned down for upgrade and that it was certain that some ministers would be dropped.

He said, “I can confirm to you that a former governor is among the ministers that will be dropped in the cabinet shake-up. There is also a minister of state that has been pencilled for upgrade.”

When contacted, the Special Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, said, “I don’t know about any cabinet reshuffling. What I know is that the president is preparing to address the nation for the Democracy Day celebration, and on Thursday he will leave for Lagos to celebrate Sallah.”

https://dailytrust.com/tinubu-may-reshuffle-cabinet-create-new-ministry/

Excellent Football managers know that you need to keep tweaking your formation and tactics to win big. Pep sometimes use close to 3 diff formations in a game- Thats Genius


With PBAT, it all look promising. Sometimes I just wish i could jump into 2026 already...It promises to be super-juicy for us all in the next few months in Nigeria

Toh, Helinues pls is that the solution. Just asking.

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Nn

Incompetent

Why? You just told the nation recently that you can't afford the large living wage NLC asked for , after spending N500 million to set up a committee to achieve the same minimum wage they couldn't achieve that led us to a strike .

Now you want to set up a new ministry incurring more costs when you have been exposed to having waged N90 billion on hajj subsidies for your friends.

What is he thinking ? This so why when I see comments by clowns like Legendhero and helinues I just laugh.

These ignorant kids trying to scare the populace into thinking a higher minimum wage would cause an inflation when the very government they try to market spend recklessly and without any care.

😄💯🔥 Irony

Create new ministry, I really don't think that's necessary, they should work on making those on ground already productive.

Tinubu should focus on restructuring the country and allow the federating units administer the country and pay taxes to the federal government.

I don't want to believe that the document of regional government flying around the internet is another tool APC uses for lies, deceits and propaganda.

EmperorCaesar:


Excellent Football managers know that you need to keep tweaking your formation and tactics to win big. Pep sometimes use close to 3 diff formations in a game- Thats Genius


With PBAT, it all look promising. Sometimes I just wish i could jump into 2026 already...It promises to be super-juicy for us all in the next few months in Nigeria

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It will still not change anything... Except of course more people to loot the country's wealth

Shege promax,,ds tinubu ehnnn??

We have too many ministries already instead of merging the ministries together, una dey create more.

Too many redundant ministries just too collect money. This country no go ever fix like this.

shiwex:
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Keep fooling yourself.....you are playing with your childrens' future....

Sounds like "Minister of Ruga". It's part of the contract he signed for the Fulanis before he became the President

Who cares?

Nonsense and agbado

EmeldaSmiths:
It will still not change anything... Except of course more people to loot the country's wealth

Honestly. Just same circle

Yolo

U MEAN GIVE JOB TO MORE OF HIS PEOPLE.


TINUBU WITH THE HIGHST NUMBER OF MINISTERS IS CREATING MORE.


NA SALARY HIM COME DISTRIBUTE ABI?

He built lagos, he divided the red sea...


Oya do wonders


Cement finish

Wat ever helps our economy and security… you hav my approval

Ok

We need nothing less than six digits as walking dead wage bulaba

Hmmm

BigDawsNet:
Wat ever helps our economy and security… you hav my approval

U SAY MORE MINISTERSS HELP THE ECONOMY?

AGBADO HAVE FINISH NIGERIA.

Lol.. pep manages a team of 11 players on the pitch, tinubu manages millions of people and you just change tactics like that? I'm not saying your statement is wrong, it is a total failure, misleading and incompetent to come from a true patriot

EmperorCaesar:


Excellent Football managers know that you need to keep tweaking your formation and tactics to win big. Pep sometimes use close to 3 diff formations in a game- Thats Genius


With PBAT, it all look promising. Sometimes I just wish i could jump into 2026 already...It promises to be super-juicy for us all in the next few months in Nigeria

in what way does it look promising?

in what way does it promise to be "super-juicy for us all in the next few months in Nigeria"?

the months that have passed so far, what is the juicy that was experienced?

which formation and tactics did tinubu deploy that he is tweaking?

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