President Bola Tinubu has again reassigned Minister of State, Doris Uzoka-Anite, marking her third portfolio change since joining the Federal Executive Council in 2023.
Uzoka-Anite was initially appointed in August 2023 as Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment. However, she was replaced in October 2024 by Jumoke Oduwole after just over a year in office.
Following her exit from the trade ministry, she was redeployed to the Ministry of Finance as Minister of State, working under the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun. At the time, Edun described her appointment as significant to driving the administration’s economic reform programme.
In the latest reshuffle, Uzoka-Anite has been moved to the Ministry of Budget and Economic Planning, where she will serve as Minister of State under Atiku Bagudu.
With the new redeployment, she has yet to complete two years in any single ministerial position since her appointment to the cabinet.
Before transitioning to the federal level, Uzoka-Anite served for about two and a half years as Commissioner for Finance and Coordinating Economy in Imo State. Prior to entering public service, she spent nearly two decades in the private sector.
An alumna of the University of Benin, she began her career in healthcare as a medical officer at Providence Hospital in 2002 before moving into the banking sector. She joined Zenith Bank as an assistant banking officer and rose through the ranks over a 19-year career to become Group Head of Treasury, a role she held until March 2021.
Her repeated redeployments come as the Tinubu administration continues to recalibrate its economic team amid ongoing fiscal and economic challenges facing the country.
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