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BREAKING: Tinubu Sends Fresh Ambassador-nominees Names to Senate for Confirmation
President Bola Tinubu has forwarded a fresh list of ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
BIGPEN NIGERIA (https://bigpenngr.com) reports the list contains 65 names consisting of Career Ambassadors and High Commissioners in addition to 31 Non-Career Ambassadors earlier forwarded.
The President of the Senate, Senator Godswill Akpabio, read the President’s request letter on Thursday.
Notable nominees among the 34 career ambassadorial nominees are Sulu-Gambari Olatunde Ahned from Kwara State, Segun Ige from Edo State, while notable among the non-career ambassadorial nominees are Senator Folasade Grace Bent from Adamawa State, Senator Solomon Ita Enang from Akwa-Ibom State, Senator Jimoh Ibrahim from Ondo State, etc.
Tinubu also named Chioma Ohakim, former Imo state first lady; and Abdulrahman Dambazau, former minister of interior and former chief of army staff, as non-career ambassadors.
Their names were absent from the earlier batch of ambassadorial nominees released by the presidency.
Meanwhile, the three Ambassadorial nominees, namely Kayode Are (Ogun State), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Ayodele Oke (Oyo State), earlier forwarded to the Senate last week, have been screened by its committee on Foreign Affairs, while the new 65 nominees have been forwarded to the same committee for screening within one week.
Details later…
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