President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has sent the list of newly appointed Ministerial nominees to the Nigerian Senate for consideration and confirmation of the appointment
The Senate President Godswill Akpabio confirmed Tinubu’s request seeking expeditious consideration of the requests in a letter he read at the commencement of the plenary on Thursday in Abuja
Tinubu who announced the new Ministerial nominees on Wednesday in a major cabinet shake up, urged the Senate to consider and confirm the seven nominees for appointment as ministers.
The ministerial nominees for confirmation include Nentawe Yilwatda (Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction), Muhammadu Dingyadi (Labour & Employment), Bianca Odumegwu-Ojukwu (State Foreign Affairs), and Jumoke Oduwole (Industry, Trade and Investment).
Others are Idi Mukhtar Maiha (Livestock Development), Yusuf Ata (State, Housing and Urban Development), and Suwaiba Ahmad (State Education).
Akpabio later referred the nominees to the Committee of the Whole for further legislative action as soon as possible.
The president had during the reshuffling, sacked five of his ministers, redeployed 10 of them, and appointed seven others.
Those sacked included Uju-Ken Ohanenye as Minister of Women Affairs; Lola Ade-John as Minister of Tourism; Tahir Mamman as Minister of Education; Abdullahi Gwarzo as Minister of State, Housing and Urban Development; and Jamila Ibrahim as Minister of Youth Development.
Tinubu thereafter appointed seven others. Among those reassigned were Yusuf Sununu who was removed as the Minister of State for Education and named as the Minister of State, Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction.
Tinubu reassigned Olatunji Alausa as the Minister of Education, removing him as the Minister of State, Health.
Bello Goronyo was removed as Minister of State, Water Resources and Sanitation and reassigned as Minister of State Works.
Abubakar Momoh was relieved as Minister of Niger Delta Development and reassigned as Minister of Regional Development.
Tinubu reassigned Uba Maigari Ahmadu as Minister of State, Regional Development, from his previous portfolio as Minister of State, Steel Development.
The Minister of Industry, Trade, and Investment, Doris Uzoka-Anite, was reassigned as Minister of State Finance to deputised the Minister of Finance and Coordinating Minister of the Economy, Wale Edun.
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