President Buhari Appoints Self As Minister Of Petroleum Resources

President President Muhammadu Buhari was in New York to be part of 70th United Nations General Assembly and he granted interviews to one of the foreign media in his hotels.  During the interviews he revealed that he would head the Ministry of Petroleum Resources.

Punch Reports:

"I will serve as the Minister of Petroleum Resources myself," Buhari told his interviewer.

The nation’s petroleum sector has been said to be enmeshed in corruption with millions of dollars said to be missing in the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation.

Shortly after assuming office, Buhari sacked and replaced the management of the company.

The new management had started a general reorganisation of the firm.

Buhari had on Monday said the trial of those who looted the NNPC would commence soon.

Meanwhile, ministerial list that President Muhammadu Buhari will submit to the Senate on Wednesday (today)will not contain all the members of his proposed cabinet, THE PUNCH has learnt.

Buhari was inaugurated on May 29, having defeated former President Goodluck Jonathan in the presidential election held in March.

Investigation by one of our correspondents on Tuesday revealed that what would be transmitted to the Senate this week would not be a complete list of nominees.

A top government official familiar with the arrangement confided in one of our correspondents that Buhari would send the names of the nominees to the Senate in batches.

"What the Senate will be getting on Tuesday or Wednesday will not be a complete list. The names will be sent in batches but quite a number will be on this first list while others will be compiled and sent later," the source said.

The President may have decided to send the names in batches in order to meet the September deadline he set for himself rather than waiting to compile the full list and fail to beat the deadline.

The world is watching!!!