President Bola Tinubu has transmitted three additional names of Ministerial nominees to the Senate.
The three nominees are Jamila Bio, Balarebe Abbas and Olawale Olawande.
This was contained in a letter read by the Senate President, GodsWill Akpabio, at the plenary on Tuesday.
Abbas Balarabe was nominated as the replacement for the former Kaduna Governor, Nasir El-Rufai who was expected to head the ministry of power.
The fresh nomination is coming barely three months after the upper chamber of the National Assembly confirmed 45 nominees with various portfolios.
El-Rufai was earlier nominated by the President but had his nomination turned down by the Senate after the screening exercise in August.
Bio Ibrahim, a medical doctor, recently served as the Progressive Young Women Forum (PYWF) president.
She also served as the Senior Special Assistant to the Kwara State Governor on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Olawande is a community development expert and youth leader in the governing All Progressives Congress (APC).
He was the APC Lagos State Chapter Youth Coordinator.
He recently served in the Office of the Special Adviser to the President on Innovation from 2019 to 2023.
Balarabe was born in Zaria, Kaduna State in 1958. He served as a public servant a member of the Kaduna Transition Committee.
He was a lecturer at the Administrative Staff College, Lagos, before becoming the former Secretary to Kaduna State Government.
Though the Senate is yet to fix a date for confirmation of the nominees, if confirmed, this will bring the number of cabinet ministers in the Tinubu administration to 48.
