Senate Confirms All 43 Ministerial Nominees

The Senate on Tuesday confirmed the appointment of all the 43 ministerial nominees sent to the red chamber by President Muhammdu Buhari.

Buhari had last Tuesday sent a list of potential ministers to the Senate for screening.

The Senate postponed its annual vacation to conduct the screening of the ministers.

The nominees were screened within five days.

While the seven women on the list were simply asked to address the upper chamber, bow and go, their male counterparts answered questions thrown at them by the lawmakers, with the exception of former lawmakers, who were also asked to take a bow and go.

See the list of confirmed ministerial nominees:

1.      Uchechukwu Ogah (Abia)

2.      Godswill Akpabio (Akwa Ibom)

3.      George Akume (Benue)

4.      Ogbonnaya Onu (Ebonyi)

5.      Emeka. Nwajuaba (Imo)

6.      Olorunnibe Mamora (Lagos)

7.      Olamilekan Adegbite (Ogun)

8.      Adamu. Adamu (Bauchi)

9.      Rotimi Amaechi (Rivers)

10.  Sharon Ikeazor (Anambra)

11.  Tayo Alasoadura (Ondo)

12.  Mustapha Shehuri (Borno)

13.  Abubakar Aliyu (Yobe)

14.  Bashir Magashi (Kano)

15.  Ramatu Aliyu (Kogi)

16.  Timipre Sylva (Bayelsa)

17.  Zubairu Dada (Niger)

18.  Chris Ngige (Anambra)

19.  Abdullahi Hassan (Nasarawa)

20.  Sunday Dare (Oyo)

21.  Muhammad Bello (Adamawa)

22.  Sadiya Farouq (Zamfara)

23.  Zainab Ahmed (Kaduna)

24.  Adeniyi Adebayo (Ekiti)

25.  Abubakar Malami (Kebbi)

26.  Hadi Sirika (Katsina)

27.  Osagie Enahire (Edo)

28.  Paullen Tallen (Plateau)

29.  Festus Keyamo (Delta)

30.  Ali Isa Pantami (Gombe)

31.  Maigarai Dingyadi (Sokoto)

32.  Babatunde Fashola (Lagos)

33.  Muhammad Mahmoud (Kaduna)

34.  Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara)

35.  Rauf Aregbesola

36.  Goddy Jedy-Agba

37.  Engr. Suleiman Adamu ( Jigawa)

38.  Ambassador Maryam Katagun (Bauchi)

39.  Clement Agba (Edo)

40.  Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu)

41. Engr. Saleh Mamman (Taraba)

42. Sabo Nanono (Kano)

43. Lai Mohammed (Kwara)