Former UI VC Adewole, 3 women, others on the 2nd official list of ministerial nominees handed to the Senate

The Nigerian senate on Tuesday formally disclosed the names on the 2nd batch of the list of ministerial nominees sent to the upper chamber of the national assembly by President Muhammadu Buhari.

Senate President Bukola Saraki announced on Monday that he he had received the 2nd batch of the list of ministerial nominees as sent by the president, delivered by the chief of staff to the president, Alhaji Abba Kyari and the special adviser to the president on national assembly (senate), Senator Ita Enang.

The 15 Names on the list unveiled at the commencement of senate plenary on Tuesday include:

1. Professor Isaac Adewole, the immediate past vice-chancellor of the University of Ibadan (UI) who hails from Osun state.
2. Professor Omoyele Daramola who hails from Ondo state and is a noted academic in the field of Sociology and Education
3. Mr Okechukwu Enelamah, the Chief Executive Officer of African Capital Alliance
4. Mr Adamu Adamu, former Editor of New Nigerian
5. Hajiya Khadijah Abba Ibrahim, wife of Senator Bukar Abba Ibrahim, former governor of Yobe state
6. Mr James Ocholi, SAN, an accomplished legal practitioner and indigene of Kogi state.
7. Professor Anthony Anwuka from Imo state, a reputed academic in the field of Education Administration
8. Brig. Gen. Mansur Dan-Ali (rtd), a former top military officer from Zamfara state

Other names read out by the senate president are:

9. Mohammed Bello, Esq., a former chairman of the National Hajj Commission of Nigeria

10 Pastor Usani Uguru Usani, chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Cross River state

11. Mr Okechukwu Onyeama

12. Mr Abubakar Bawa

13. Senator Heineken Lokpobiri, from Bayelsa, a former senate committee chairman on sports

14. Mrs Zainab Shamsuna Ahmed, Executive Secretary of the National Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative

15. Mrs Aisha Abubakar

While Senator Bukola Saraki was reading the letter from the president, he emphasized that this was the final list.

The screening of the ministerial nominees, the total number of which has now come to 36, has similarly commenced at the senate. It is being streamed live on the national assembly website: www.nass.gov.ng and also on www.senate.gov.ng which is the website of the senate.