President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has forwarded more names of ministerial nominees to the Senate for screening and confirmation.
The names were former by the former Speaker of the House of Representatives, now Chief of Staff to President Bola Tinubu, Femi Gbajiabiamila to the President of the Senate, Godswill Akpabio, on Wednesday.
The list is a completion of the remaining 11 states that have not been allowed a ministerial slot.
It was gathered that the Senate invoked its Order 12(i) to allow the former Speaker to enter the chamber at 3.15 p.m to allow the erstwhile speaker to present the list.
Before the Chief of Staff came into the chamber, a ministerial nominee, Lateef Fagbemi, Kwara, was standing before the Senators for screening.
The Senate today entered the third day of the screening of the nominees submitted to it last week Thursday by President Tinubu for subsequent confirmation.
Recall, Tinubu had, last week, forwarded 28 nominees to the Senate for screening.
Also, the Senate had, on Monday, screened 14 out of the 28 just as it set to attend to 14 nominees today.
According to the Order Paper of today, five nominees were listed for screening. They are Dele Alake (Ekiti); Muhammad Idris (Niger); Professor Ali Pate Bauchi; Doris Anite Uzoka (Imo); and Lateef Fagbemi SAN (Kwara).
Addressing the senators, Dele Alake who was the first to appear said that regulation of social media should be strengthened, just as he urged the National Assembly to amend its existing laws towards regulating social media to curb fake and inaccurate information.
Alake, who raised serious concerns over the misapplication of social media in Nigeria, bitterly complained about the misuse of the platform while fielding questions from senators during his screening exercise on Wednesday in Abuja.
