By Kolawole Ojebisi
All is set for the screening of the ministerial nominees forwarded to the red chamber for confirmation by President Bola Tinubu today.
This is after the nominees had been cleared by the Department of State Service (DSS), and given a clean bill of health, ahead of their screening today.
President Tinubu had on Wednesday reshuflled his cabinet, an exercise that cost five ministers their posts.
Tinubu also named seven new ministers and swapped the portfolios of 10 others.
In a last ditch effort to beat the deadline, the nominees were said to have swarmed the office of the Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Senator Basheer Lado, to submit their resumes yesterday.
Senator Lado, in a statement, confirmed that the ministerial nominees were undergoing documentation ahead of their screening and confirmation by the Senate, which commences today at the National Assembly Complex, Abuja.
The ministerial nominees to appear for screening and confirmation today are Dr Nentawe Yilwatda, Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction; Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, Labour and Employment; and Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu, Foreign Affairs – State.
Others are Dr Jumoke Oduwole, Industry, Trade and Development; Idi Muktar Maiha, Livestock Development’ Rt Hon Yusuf Abdullahi Ata (Housing – State); and Dr Suwaiba Said Ahmad, Education-State.
