NewsNigeriaPoliticsSenate Confirms 45 Ministerial Nominees, Three Awaits Security Clearance

The Senate on Monday confirmed 45 of the 48 ministerial nominees submitted by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu.

The Senate had spent one week of intense questioning for some and superficial introductions for others.

Senate President Godswill Akpabio put the nominations to a series of voice votes, of which three are said to still be undergoing security clearance they are former Governor of Kaduna State, Nasir El-Rufai, Stella Okotete (Delta State), and Abubakar Danladi (Taraba State).

The nominees confirmed as Ministers are as follows;

1. 1. Akwa Ibom: Ekperikpe Ekpo
   2. Bayelsa: Heineken Lolokpobri
   3. Cross Rivers: Betta Edu

4 Cross River: John Owan Enoh

1. 5. Delta: Stella Okotete X

6 . Delta: Festus Keyamo

1. 7. Edo: Abubakar Momoh
   8. Rivers: Nyesom Wike
   9. Adamawa: Tahir Mamman
   10. Bauchi: Yusuf Maitama Tuggar
   11. Bauchi: Ali Pate
   12. Borno: Abubakar Kyari
   13. Gombe: Alkali Ahmed Saidu
   14. Taraba: Uba Maigari Ahmadu
   15. Yobe: Ibrahim Geidam
   16. Taraba: Sani A Danladi X
   17. Jigawa: Mohamed Badaru
   18. Kaduna: Nasir El-Rufai X
   19. Kano: Mariya Mahmoud Bunkure
   20. Kano: Abdullahi Tijjani Gwarzo
   21. Katsina: Ahmad Dangiwa
   22. Katsina: Hannatu Musawa
   23. Kebbi: Yusuf Tanko Sununu
   24. Kebbi: Atiku Bagudu
   25. Sokoto: Bello M Goronyo
   26. Zamfara: Bello Matawwalle
   27. Abia: Nkiru Onyejiocha
   28. Anambra: Uju Ohaneye
   29. Ebonyi: David Umahi
   30. Enugu: Uche Nnaji
   31. Imo: Doris Uzoka
   32. Ekiti: Dele Alake
   33. Lagos: Tunji Alausa
   34. Lagos: Lola Ade John
   35. Ogun: Ishak Salako
   36. Ogun: Bosun Tijani
   37. Ogun: Olawale Edun
   38. Ondo: Olubunmi Tunji-Ojo
   39. Osun: Adegboyega Oyetola
   40. Oyo: Adebayo Adelabu
   41. Benue: Joseph Utsav
   42. FCT: Zephaniah Bitrus Jisalo
   43. Kogi: Shaibu Abubakar Audu
   44. Kwara: Lateef Fagbemi, SAN
   45. Nasarawa: Imaan Sulaiman-Ibrahim
   46. Niger: Mohammed Idris
   47. Niger: Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi
   48. Plateau: Simon Bako Lalong

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Veteran journalist and recipient of A.B.C Yola, Reporter of the Year Award (1997), Hassan Umar Shallpella, works with WAP as a Regional Correspondence. He was trained at Institute of Mass Communication and Technology Jos and Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria, Training School Lagos.He was a News desk Editor and a Correspondent at the Punch newspaper and till 2019, was the Deputy Editor ofThe Scope newspaper.

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