Senate Postpones Amaechi’s Screening Till Tuesday

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The Nigerian Senate has postponed the screening of ministerial nominees till early next week.

The postponement was announced via the National Assembly’s twitter handle on Thursday.

“There will be no ministerial screening today,” the assembly twitted. “We will continue on Tuesday.”

At the end of the second day of the screening and confirmation at the national assembly, only eight out of the 10 ministerial nominees were screened. But in all, 18 ministers have been confirmed.

While one nominee, Ahmed Ibeto, the immediate past deputy governor of Niger State, was dropped by the presidency, the former governor of Rivers State Chibuike Amaechi, was rescheduled for early next week.

The confirmed ministers are: Udoma Udo Udoma, Dr. John Kayode Fayemi, Audu Ogbe, Christopher Ogbonnaya Onu, Dr. Osagie Ehanire, Lt.Gen. Abdulrahman Danbazzau (Rtd), Alhaji Lai Mohammed, Amina Mohammed, Ibrahim Jubril, Babatunde Fashola, Aisha Alhassan,  Hadi Sirika, Solomon Dalong, Ibe Kachukwu, Kemi Adeosun, Abubakar Malami, Engineer Suleiman Adamu and Dr. Chris Ngige.

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