{"id":19031,"date":"2023-08-03T14:35:49","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:35:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/?p=19031"},"modified":"2023-08-03T14:35:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-03T13:35:53","slug":"senate-receives-additional-19-nominees-for-appointment-as-ministers-of-the-federal-republic-of-nigeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/senate-receives-additional-19-nominees-for-appointment-as-ministers-of-the-federal-republic-of-nigeria\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Receives Additional 19 Nominees for Appointment as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Senate has received from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the names of 19 additional nominees to be appointed as Ministers, which was officially submitted through his Chief of Staff (CoS), Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila at the plenary session of Wednesday, 2 August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC: Akwa Ibom) following the conclusion of the confirmation hearing of the 28 nominees earlier presented by President Tinubu, promptly acknowledged the receipt of the nominations of the following persons to be appointed as Ministers:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Mr. Ahmed Tijani Gwarzo \u2013 Kano State<\/li>
  2. Mr. Bosun Tijani \u2013 Ogun State<\/li>
  3. Dr. Mariam Shetty \u2013 Kano State<\/li>
  4. Dr. Isiak Salako \u2013 Ogun State<\/li>
  5. Dr. Tunji Alausa \u2013 Lagos State<\/li>
  6. Dr. Yusuf Tanko Sununu \u2013 Kebbi State<\/li>
  7. H.E Adegboyega Oyetola \u2013 Osun State<\/li>
  8. H.E Atiku Bagudu \u2013 Kebbi State<\/li>
  9. H.E Bello Matawalle \u2013 Zamfara State<\/li>
  10. H.E Ibrahim Geidam \u2013 Yobe State<\/li>
  11. H.E Simon Bako Lalong \u2013 Plateau State<\/li>
  12. Lola Ade John – Lagos<\/li>
  13. Prince Shuaibu Abubakar Audu \u2013 Kogi State<\/li>
  14. Prof. Tahir Mamman \u2013 Adamawa State<\/li>
  15. Sen. Aliyu Sabi Abdullahi \u2013 Niger State<\/li>
  16. Sen. Alkali Ahmed Said \u2013 Gombe State<\/li>
  17. Sen. Heineken Lokpobiri \u2013 Bayelsa State<\/li>
  18. Uba Maigari Ahmadu \u2013 Taraba State<\/li>
  19. Hon. Zephaniah Jisalo – FCT<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    With the submission of the additional names to the Senate, Sen. Akpabio stated that the confirmation hearing of the nominees will commence on Friday, 4 August 2023, at plenary after the screening exercise with all relevant authorities have been conducted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The Senate has received from President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the names of 19 additional nominees to be appointed as Ministers, which was officially submitted through his Chief of Staff (CoS), Hon. Femi Gbajabiamila at the plenary session of Wednesday, 2 August 2023. The President of the Senate, Sen. Godswill Akpabio (APC: Akwa Ibom) following the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"acf":[],"author_meta":{"display_name":"PLAC","author_link":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/author\/olumide-adebayo\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Nigerian-Senate456-780x405-1-300x156.png","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["News<\/a>"],"unlinked":["News<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 3 years ago","modified":"Updated 3 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on August 3, 2023","modified":"Updated on August 3, 2023"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on August 3, 2023 2:35 pm","modified":"Updated on August 3, 2023 2:35 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19032,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19031\/revisions\/19032"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13858"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/placng.org\/i\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}