President Bola Tinubu has announced the scrapping of some federal ministries and realigned others.
The Ministry of Niger Delta is renamed Ministry of Regional Development incorporating all regional development bodies such as the North-East, North West, and other development commissions.
The minister of information and national orientation, Mr Mohammed Idris, announced this while briefing journalist after a meeting of the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on Wednesday.
The minister also said the ministry of sports was wound down and that sporting activities will now be under the National Sports Commission (NSC).
The NSC, established in 1971, was previously dissolved by the Muhammadu Buhari government in 2015.
Besides, Idris said the president had ordered the scrapping of the ministry of tourism.
All its activities, he said, will now be under a renamed ministry of arts, culture, tourism and creative economy.
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