Senate screens ministerial nominees

Screening of the seven newly nominated ministers are currently ongoing in the Senate.

The new ministers are Dr Nentawe Yilwatda as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction, Muhammadu Dingyadi as Minister of Labour and Employment, Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu as Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, and Dr. Jumoke Oduwole as Minister of Industry, Trade and Development.

Also included are Idi Muktar Maiha as Minister of Livestock Development, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Ata as Minister of State, Housing, and Dr Suwaiba Said Ahmad as Minister of State, Education.

The Senate Leader, Opeyemi Bamidele at 12:57 pm, on Wednesday a motion to suspend its rule to admit the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Basheer Lado, to bring the nominees into the plenary.

Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, had on Tuesday,k read the letter from President Bola Tinubu nominating the new ministers.

The screening was sequel to President Tinubu’s recent cabinet reshuffle in which five ministers were dropped and ten others reassigned. The dropped ministers are the Minister of Women Affairs, Uju-Ken Ohanenye; Minister of Tourism, Lola Ade-John; Minister of Education, Prof. Tahir Mamman; Minister of State for Housing and Urban Development, Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo; and Minister of Youth Development, Dr Jamila Bio Ibrahim.