Buhari appoints petroleum minister, to name other ministers today
President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday named Nigeria’s petroleum minister. And that is himself. Mr. Buhari said he would personally head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources in the new cabinet. Addressing some select reporters in New York on Tuesday, after addressing a Global Leaders’ Summit on Countering ISIL and Violent Extremism, the President said: “I wil remain Minister of Petroleum. “I will appoint a minister of State for Petroleum”.