LAGOS, Nigeria (AP)— Nigeria’s Senate announced 20 nominees for the Cabinet of President Muhammadu Buhari on Oct. 6, representing all regions of this West African nation but only three women in a team expected to fight endemic corruption.
Buhari has said he will hold the most powerful portfolio of petroleum in Africa’s biggest oil producer.
Among the candidates is the recently appointed head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Corp., Harvard-educated Ibe Kachikwu. Kachikwu has 30 years’ experience in Nigeria’s private oil sector and is touted to be minister of state running the petroleum ministry with Buhari’s oversight.
One of Buhari’s first acts was to fire the top echelon of the state oil industry, from which $20 billion allegedly has been looted.
About Post Author
