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Solomon Dalong – (From Plateau State, Nigeria) Awarded Minister for Youth and Sports

Solomon Dalong, 51, has been named as Nigeria’s new Minister of Youth and Sports. The Plateau-State born lawyer was sworn in along with other ministers in President Muhammadu Buhari’s cabinet on Wednesday. Dalong was born on September 26, 1964, in the town of Sabon Gida, Langtang South Local Council. Dalong had his primary education at LEA Primary School Sabon Gida from 1971 to 1977. He then went to Government College, Keffi, currently in Nassarawa State, for his secondary education. He joined the Nigerian Prisons Service, thereafter. Dalong studied law at the Unive