Posted on: 06:22 Thu, 29 Oct 2015



The ministerial screening is now over, and 18 ministerial nominees were today approved including Rotimi Amaechi.

During the confirmation process, there had been a bit of drama surrounding Amaechi’s confirmation, as the senate was looking into petitions filed against him. However, that has been sorted out and he has been confirmed.

Here is the list of ministers that were confirmed today:

Rotimi Amaechi

Adebayo Shittu

Khadija Abba Ibrahim

Heineken Lokpobiri

Claudius Omoleye

Baba Shehuri Mustapha

Ocholi James

Adewole Isaac Folorunsho

Bawa Bwari

Geoffrey Onyeama

Zainab Ahmed

Dan Ali

Usani Uhuru

Okechukwu Enelamah

Anthony Anwuka Gozie

Mohammed Musa Bello

Adamu Adamu

Aisha Abubakar