The Senate has resumed the screening of the ministerial nominees submitted to it by President Muhammadu Buhari today with Babatunde Raji Fashola from Lagos State.
The screening started around 10:40am. Fashola was the minister of Power, Works and Housing in the last cabinet.
The session is being presided over by the Senate President, Ahmad Lawan.
Recall that, last week, a total of 31 out of the 43 nominees were screened. The exercise is expected to be concluded tomorrow.
Others to be screened today are Gbemisola Saraki (Kwara), Goddy Jedy-Agba-Agba (Cross River), Sulaiman Adamu (Jigawa), Maryam Katagun (Bauchi), Clement Agba (Edo), Geoffrey Onyeama (Enugu), Muhammad Mahmoud (Kaduna) and Rauf Aregbesola (Osun).