The Senate has received the names of seven Ministerial nominees from President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation as Ministers of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

The confirmation request was contained in a letter addressed to the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan, and read on the floor at the start of the plenary on Tuesday

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President Buhari, in the letter, explained that the confirmation request was in accordance with the provisions of Section 147 subsection 2 of the 1999 Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria as amended.

The nominees for confirmation include Henry Ikechukwu Ikoh - Abia State; Umana Okon Umana - Akwa Ibom State; Ekumankama Joseph Nkama- Ebonyi State; and Goodluck Nana Opiah - Imo State.

Others are Umar Ibrahim El-Yakub - Kano State; Ademola Adewole Adegoroye - Ondo State; and Odum Odi - Rivers State.