{"id":53446,"date":"2024-10-25T05:59:25","date_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=53446"},"modified":"2024-10-25T05:59:25","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:59:25","slug":"senate-receives-request-to-confirm-7-ministerial-nominees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/10\/25\/senate-receives-request-to-confirm-7-ministerial-nominees\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Receives Request to Confirm 7 Ministerial Nominees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s request for confirmation of seven ministerial nominees was formally received by the Senate on Thursday. The president\u2019s request was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, which was read at the plenary.<\/p>\n<p>The nominees include Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, Amb. Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu, Dr. Jumoke Oduwole, Idi Muktar Maiha, Rt. Hon. Yusuf Abdullahi Ata, and Dr. Suwaiba Said Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>President Tinubu sought expedited consideration. Senate President Godswill Akpabio announced, &#8220;Distinguished colleagues, the presidential request is referred to the Committee of the Whole for consideration very soon.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Abuja City Journal reports that the Senate is expected to screen the nominees openly at its Committee of the Whole at a yet-to-be announced date next week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bola Tinubu&#8217;s request for confirmation of seven ministerial nominees was formally received by the Senate on Thursday. The president\u2019s request was contained in a letter addressed to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, which was read at the plenary. The nominees include Dr. Nentawe Yilwatda, Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi, Amb. Bianca Odinaka Odumegu-Ojukwu, Dr. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":53448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[334],"class_list":["post-53446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja-reports","tag-nass"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53446"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53446\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53560,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53446\/revisions\/53560"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}