Part of a tweet by the official handle of the 8th Assembly said "there
will be no ministerial screening today. We will continue on Tuesday".
Ladies and gentlemen. There will be no #MinisterialScreeni ngtoday. We
will continue on Tuesday. We will tweet CVs of new nominees
— Nigerian Senate (@NGRSenate) October 15, 2015
At the end of Day 2 of the screening and confirmation at the national
assembly, only eight out of the 10 ministerial nominees were screened.
While one nominee was dropped by the presidency, the other, the former
governor of Rivers State Chibuike Amaechi, was rescheduled for early
next week.
All 18 nominees, who appeared before the Senate, have been cleared
for ministerial appointmentsby President Muhammadu Buhari.
They include Udoma Udo Udoma, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Audu Ogbe,
Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Lt.Gen. Abdulrahman
Danbazzau (Rtd), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Amina Mohammed, Ibrahim Jubril,
Babatunde Fashola, Aisha Alhassan.
Others are Senator Hadi Sirika, Solomon Dalong, Ibe Kachukwu, Kemi
Adeosun, Abubakar Malami, Engineer Suleiman Adamu and Dr. Chris Ngige.
At the end of plenary on Wednesday, Senate President, Dr. Bukola
Saraki read out the names of the nominees, who had fielded questions
from the lawmakers.
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