1. Geoffrey Onyeama
Geoffrey Onyeama undergoing screening
Onyeama was assigned as a Minster for Foreign Affairs.
He graduated in political science from Columbia University in New York in 1977, and also has degrees in law from the London School of Economics and from Cambridge University.
Between 1986 and 1996, Onyeama, who is a qualified barrister in Britain and Nigeria, was an intellectual property specialist who has worked extensively with the United Nations on development in Africa.
He has held different international positions at World Intellectual Property Organisation where he rose from program officer to become deputy director general amongst others. Onyeama is the fourth son of Charles Dadi Onyeama, who was Nigeria’s first ever judge at the International Court of Justice at the Hague.
He speaks English, French, German and Igbo.
2. Okechukwu Enyinna Enelamah
Okechukwu “Okey” Enelamah succeeded Osinbajo’s pastoral parish
Okechukwu Enelamah is co-founder and CEO at African Capital Alliance- Africa largest equity and hedge fund firm. He hails from Umuahia in Abia state, Nigeria
He appeared as a surprise addition to President Buhari’s ministerial list.
Enelamah’s emergence has sent waves of enthusiasm and a sense of new goodwill for Buhari among the investor and analyst community.
Experts see him as one of the very bright spots in the cabinet and are enthusiastic about the prospects of having his priceless insight and global financial expertise in Nigeria’s administration. Some have supposed that he would have taken the position of finance minister.
However, he was assigned to the Minster for Industry, Investments and Trade
He is also a qualified chartered accountant and chartered financial analyst. He was elected George F. Baker Scholar and designated Loeb Fellow for academic excellence in the area of finance at the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration, where he earned a Masters in Business Administration with distinction in 1994.
Asides from being a finance and management consulting expert, he is trained as a medical doctor.
3. Ibe Kachikwu
Dr Ibe Kachikwu
Kachikwu, who is from Anioma, Delta state, receives a post of Minister of State for Petroleum.
Before emerging the minister he was recently appointed as general managing director of NNPC.
He is a first class graduate of law, University of Nigeria, Nsukka and the Nigerian Law School. Kachikwu, 58, is an author of three legal books as well as the publisher of the popular Hints and Chanelle magazines.
Respected writers like Toni Kan, Reuben Abati, Kayode Ajala, etc cut their teeth writing for his publications.
He also worked for Exxon Mobil as vice chairman and general counsel. But before that, he was with the Nigerian/American Merchant Bank and Texaco.
He has lectured in Nigeria, at Harvard and different institutions around the world as either a visiting lecturer or professor in Law.
Five months after being chosen to lead African largest country Muhammadu Buhari has finally inaugurated his cabinet on November 11.
The final list of the ministers really surprised godfathers and many, who were expecting that some big names earlier speculated to be considered, were missing.
Some names in Buhari’s cabinet showed that the ministers have virtually not held cabinet positions in the past.
Out of 36 nominated ministers, about 20 are veterans from Buhari’s party, former state governors, ministers or associates from his military career. A dozen could be classified as ‘technocrats’.
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