{"id":10473,"date":"2024-10-23T17:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/?p=10473"},"modified":"2024-10-23T17:20:42","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T17:20:42","slug":"president-tinubu-reshuffles-cabinet-merges-ministries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/2024\/10\/23\/president-tinubu-reshuffles-cabinet-merges-ministries\/","title":{"rendered":"President Tinubu reshuffles cabinet, merges ministries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved a reshuffle of his ministerial cabinet and merged two ministries into one.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was made during the Federal Executive Council (FEC) meeting on Wednesday, according to a statement by Bayo Onanuga, the president\u2019s spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Onanuga confirmed that the president has scrapped the Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of Sports Development.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Tinubu approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Tinubu and Federal Executive Council scrap Niger Delta Ministry and the Ministry of sports development.<\/p>\n<p>ad<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere will now be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West Development Commission , North East Development Commission.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe National Sports Commission will take over the role of the Ministry of Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The FEC also approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy,\u201d Onanuga said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu has approved a reshuffle of his ministerial cabinet and merged two ministries into one. The decision was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10473"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10475,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10473\/revisions\/10475"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}