• Tinubu submits 65 ambassadorial nominees — 34 career, 31 non-career — to the Senate for screening.
• Notable nominees include Ibas, Dambazau, Gambari, Chioma Ohakim, Folasade Bent, Ita Enang and Jimoh Ibrahim.
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• Senate Foreign Affairs Committee gets one week to screen new nominees, adding to three earlier screened envoys.
President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has transmitted a fresh list of 65 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.
The request, containing 34 career ambassadors and 31 non-career ambassadors, was read on the Senate floor on Thursday by Senate President Godswill Akpabio.
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Among the career nominees are Sulu-Gambari Olatunde Ahmed (Kwara State) and Segun Ige (Edo State). The non-career list includes several prominent political figures: Senator Folasade Grace Bent (Adamawa), Senator Solomon Ita Enang (Akwa Ibom), Senator Jimoh Ibrahim (Ondo), and Chioma Ohakim, former First Lady of Imo State.
Also listed as non-career nominees is Lt-General Abdulrahman Dambazau (Rtd.), former Minister of Interior and former Chief of Army Staff.
The inclusion of these names expands the total ambassadorial nominations, some of whom were not part of the earlier batch released by the Presidency.
Meanwhile, three previously forwarded nominees — Kayode Are (Ogun), Aminu Dalhatu (Jigawa) and Ayodele Oke (Oyo) — have already been screened by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.
The new list of 65 nominees has similarly been referred to the Foreign Affairs Committee, with a mandate to conclude screening within one week.
