President Muhammadu Buhari will host all his 36 ministers to a retreat, Daily Trust has learnt. A top presidency source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, confirmed this to DailyTrust correspondent last night.

The source hinted that the president had concluded arrangements to host his ministers to a retreat. The retreat is likely to hold today, he added. Reports had said that President Buhari was likely to swear in the ministers and assign portfolios to them this week.

The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity, Mr Femi Adesina, had said the president would communicate when to inaugurate his cabinet. The ministers-designate include Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers), Chris Ngige (Anambra), Kayode Fayemi (Ekiti), Babatunde Fashola (Lagos), Abdulrahman Dambazau (Kano), Aisha Alhassan (Taraba), Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi), Kemi Adeosun (Ogun), Abubakar Malami (Kebbi), Hadi Sirika (Katsina), Suleiman Adamu (Jigawa), Solomon Dalong (Plateau), Ibe Kachikwu (Delta), Osagie Ehanire (Edo), Audu Ogbeh (Benue), Udo Udo Udoma (Akwa Ibom), Lai Mohammed (Kwara), Amina Mohammed (Gombe), Ibrahim Usman Jibril (Nasarawa), Anthony Onwuka (Imo) and Muhammadu Bello (Adamawa). Others are Adamu Adamu (Bauchi), Anthony Anwuka (Imo), Okechukwu Enelamah (Abia), Aisha Abubakar (Sokoto), Khadija Bukar Abba (Yobe), Claudius Daramola (Ondo), Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu), M. Dan-Ali (Zamfara), James Ocholi (Kogi), Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna), Mustapha Shehuri (Borno), Heineken Lokpobiri (Bayelsa), Isaac Adewole Folorunsho (Osun), Usani Usani Uguru (Cross River), Abubakar Bwari Bawa (Niger) and Adebayo Shittu (Oyo).