TVC E. President Buhari has forwarded nominees from Gombe and Kogi state as ministerial nominees to the Senate for confirmation. The nominee from Gombe state is to fill the position of immediate past Minister of Environment, Amina Mohammed who has moved on to become the Deputy Secretary General of the United Nation. While the one from Kogi is to fill up the vacant position of former Minister of State for Labour, James Ocholi who died in a fatal accident on March 6th 2016.
Whether or not the screening and confirmation of the new ministerial nominees would be done immediately is unknown as the senate and the presidency appears to be having a faceoff now.
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