President Bola Ahmed Tinubu has communicated to the National Assembly, to add Festus Keyamo to the list of ministerial nominees while replacing Maryam Shetty’s nomination with Dr Mariga Mahmoud, from Kano State.
The Senate President, God’swill Akpabio read out these changes in a letter sent by the President at the Friday Plenary seating.
Tribune Online reports on Wednesday that the President, in a supplementary list sent to the upper chamber, nominated 19 more persons, including Maryam Shetty, to be screened and confirmed together with his 28-man list earlier sent for ministerial positions.
With the addition of Festus Keyamo, the ministerial nominees are currently 48.
Mariga Mahmoud Bunkure was commissioner for higher education in Kano State.
She was appointed by the former governor of Kano State, Alhaji Abdullahi Ganduje.
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