The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio on Wednesday received a list of the second batch of ministerial nominees from President Bola Tinubu.
Tinubu transmitted the list to the Senate via his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila.
Akpabio is expected to unveil the additional nominees of the President after the screening of the 28 nominees in the first batch.
Already, the Senate has screened 25 nominees in the first batch as of the time of filing this report and there are three more nominees to go.
Gbajabiamila had last Thursday submitted the first list with 28 nominees to the red chamber and said more names would be forwarded to the upper chamber.
The upper chamber had on Monday screened 14 of the 28-man list of ministerial nominees forwarded by the President last Thursday.
On Tuesday nine nominees were screened and the exercise was adjourned till Wednesday.
Those screened on Tuesday are ex-governors Nasir El-Rufai (Kaduna) and Dave Umahi (Ebonyi); Wale Edun, Uche Nnaji, Stella Okotete, Adebayo Adelabu, Ekperikpe Ekpo, Hannatu Musawa, and Musa Dangiwa.
Those screened today, Wednesday are Dele Alake, Lateef Fagbemi and Muhammad Idris with Ali Pate and Doris Uzoka to go.
