List of new cabinet

25 March 2010 - 02:00
By Camillus Eboh

ABUJA - Nigeria's acting president has nominated the country's former junior oil minister and a Goldman Sachs banker to be in his new cabinet, according to a list of 33 nominees read out to the senate for approval yesterday.

ABUJA - Nigeria's acting president has nominated the country's former junior oil minister and a Goldman Sachs banker to be in his new cabinet, according to a list of 33 nominees read out to the senate for approval yesterday.

The list - which did not give portfolios - consists of nine members of the outgoing cabinet, including former junior oil minister Odein Ajumogobia, and new figures including Olusegun Aganga, a London-based managing director at Goldman Sachs.

There are more than 40 ministers in the cabinet and a second list is expected to follow for senate approval. - Reuters