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Sports Ministry scrapped as National Sports Commission returns

Nigeria’s president, Bola Tinubu has scrapped the Ministry of Sports and replaced it with the National Sports Commission (NSC).

This is the outcome of the Federal Executive Council meeting this Wednesday.

The fate of John Owan Enoh is not disclosed. The announcement was made by Bayo Onanuga, the spokesman to the Nigerian president. It is not just the Ministry of Sports that has been affected, so also are regional-based ministry.

In that regard, so also scrapped is the Niger Delta Ministry. Replacing it will be a ministry of regional development to oversee all the regional development commissions, such as Niger Delta Development Commission, North West Development Commission, South West Development Commission, North East Development Commission.

The Federal Executive Council also approved the merger of the Ministry of Tourism with the Ministry of Culture and Creative Economy.

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