The Senate has transmitted the names of 45 confirmed ministerial nominees to the Presidency. The Senior Special Assistant on National Assembly Matters (Senate), Senator Abdullahi Gumel, disclosed this in an interview with journalists at the National Assembly on Tuesday. Explaining why the number of ministerial nominees was increased to 48 …
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Maryam Shetty Speak Out After Withdrawal From Tinubu’s Ministerial List
Maryam Shetty has reacted following President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s decision to withdraw her as a ministerial nominee from Kano State. Reports emerged that the President in a communication to the National Assembly, withdrew the nomination of Maryam Shetty, replacing her with Dr. Mairiga Mahmud. But in a tweet shortly …
Read More »Fani-Kayode, Keyamo Praise Tinubu Over Ministerial Nominees
Former Minister of Aviation Chief Femi Fani-Kayode and a former Minister of State for Labour and Employment Festus Keyamo have hailed President Bola Tinubu over the choice of his ministerial nominees. Tinubu has unveiled 47 ministerial nominees in two batches. The lists include former Governors, economists, finance experts, health …
Read More »Kwankwaso, Lalong, Faleke Missing Out As Tinubu Nominates 28 Ministers
Former Kano State governor and ally of President Bola Tinubu, Senator Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso; director-general of Tinubu/Shettima Presidential Campaign Council, Simon Lalong, and secretary of the Council, Hon. James Faleke, were conspicuously missing on the list of 28 ministerial nominees put forward by the President. This is as Chief of …
Read More »FULL LIST: Senate Unveils Tinubu’s Ministerial List
The Senate on Thursday unveiled President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Ministerial list. The unveiling was done after the Chief of State to the President, Femi Gbajabiamila, delivered the final list. Among those who made the ministerial list were former Rivers State Governor, Nyesom Wike, and a former Governor of Ebonyi State, …
Read More »Wike, El-Rufai, Oyetola, Alake, Fagbemi Make Ministers List
Former Kaduna State Governor Nasiru El-Rufai, his Rivers State counterpart Nyesom Wike and eminent medical scholar Ali Pate are on the list of ministerial nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, it was learnt this morning. Also nominated for cabinet positions are legal luminary Lateef Fagbemi (SAN); …
Read More »Appointing Wike Minister Will Be Greatest Mistake – Eze Advises Tinubu
Erstwhile National Publicity Secretary of the defunct nPDP, Chief Eze Chukwuemeka Eze has admitted that it is within the exclusive preserve of President Bola Tinubu to appoint any Nigerian into his cabinet. He, however, emphasized that there should be reservations in the case of former Governor of Rivers State, Nyesom …
Read More »Tinubu Replaces 4 Names On Ministerial List
About four days to the expiration of the 60-day provision for the President to submit names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation, President Bola Tinubu is yet to fulfil this constitutional provision. Multiple sources in the Senate told Vanguard Weekend that the upper legislative chamber is …
Read More »Senate Unveils Tinubu’s Ministerial List Today
After 50 days in office, President Bola Tinubu has sent the list of his ministerial nominees to the Senate, and to be read out today by the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio. The Guardian gathered that the Clerk of the National Assembly, Magaji Tambuwal, received the letter containing the …
Read More »Fashola, Amaechi, Fayemi make ministerial list
The immediate past governor of Lagos state, Babatunde Raji Fashola, SAN; former governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi and Dr. Kayode Fayemi, who was defeated by Ayodele Fayose in the last governorship election in Ekiti state are among the names submitted by President Muhammadu Buhari to the Senate for consideration …
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