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Nigeria: Check out the present ministers in the Tinubu's Administration.

President Bola Tinubu has assigned portfolios to his ministers. In the released list, a former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom Wike, was assigned the Minister of the Federal Capital Territory.  The full list of the ministers and their assigned portfolios are as follows: Northwest Minister of Art, Culture and the Creative Economy – Hannatu Musawa Minister of Defence – Muhammad Badaru Minister of State Defence – Bello Matawalle Minister of State Education – Yusuf T. Sunumu Minister of Housing and Urban Development –  Ahmed Dangiwa Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development – Abdullahi Gwarzo Minister of Budget and Economic Planning – Atiku Bagudu Minister of Environment and Ecological Management – Kaduna Minister of State, FCT – Mairiga Mahmud Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation – Bello Goronyo Minister of Agriculture and Food Security – Abubakar Kyari Minister of Education – Tahir Momoh Minister of Interior – Sa’idu Alkali Minister of Foreign Affairs – Yusuf Tuggar

Towards a better understanding of The Human Person in Igbo Cosmology: A Narrative discourse.

 Introduction:  Every Culture has a specific way in it views things. That specificity is what makes it unique and cultural because culture has been seen people's way of life including their mode of dressing, food, work, thinking hence their worldview. The Igbo culture is also unique. In this essay we shall be concentrating mainly on the Igbo Concept of the human person.  The Igbo Generic name for the human person: The Igbo person does not see the person as man as in other cultures. The human person is generically called Mmadu which can never be translated as man. The name Mmadu could be understood in two ways. Firsly Mmadu is understood as pure beauty. This means that a person is the purest expression of beauty. In transliteration the person means " there is beauty'. A second understanding of the word Mmadu is "the beauty of creation or life". This means that it is the human being that is the real thing that makes life beautiful and sweet. There is an adage that