- President Bola Tinubu has submitted a request for Senate confirmation of several ministerial nominees
- The nominees include key positions in Humanitarian Affairs, Labour, Foreign Affairs, and Education
- The Senate has referred the request to the appropriate committee for prompt consideration
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has submitted a list of ministerial nominees to the Senate for approval.
President Tinubu’s request was contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, and read at the beginning of the plenary on Thursday, October 24.
The Ministerial nominees as contained in the letter are Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Dr Nentawe Yilwatda; Minister of Labour and Employment, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, and Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Bianca Odinaka Odumegu – -Ojukwu.
Others are, Minister of Industry, Trade and Development, Dr Jumoke Oduwole; Minister of Livestock Development, Idi Muktar Maiha;, Minister of State, Housing Yusuf Abdullahi Ata and, Minister of State, Education, Dr Suwaiba Said Ahmad.
President Tinubu in the letter, sought for expeditious consideration of his request by the Senate.
Accordingly as announced by Akpabio, the Senate referred the presidential request to the Committee of the Whole for consideration very soon.
He said, ” Distinguished colleagues, the presidential request is referred to the committee of the whole for consideration very soon.”
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