Ministerial nominees have started the documentation process for their screening by the Senate for Tuesday.

Special Adviser to the President on Senate Matters, Basheer Lado, made the announcement on Monday.

“Nominees were already submitting relevant documents as the first in the series of procedures for the screening and confirmation of ministerial nominees,” Lado said.

“The nominees are expected to be screened and confirmed by the Senate in compliance with Section 147 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria 1999 (as Amended).”

Last Thursday, the Senate received a formal request from President Bola Tinubu for the screening and confirmation of seven ministerial nominees.

The request was conveyed in a letter to the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, which was read at the start of plenary on Thursday.

The nominees listed in the President’s letter are Dr Nentawe Yilwatda as Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Poverty Reduction; Muhammadu Maigari Dingyadi as Minister of Labour and Employment; Bianca Odinaka Odumegwu-Ojukwu as Minister of State, Foreign Affairs and Dr Jumoke Oduwole as Minister of Industry, Trade and Development.

Others are Idi Muktar Maiha as Minister of Livestock Development, Yusuf Abdullahi Ata as Minister of State, Housing, and Dr Suwaiba Said Ahmad as Minister of State, Education.

In his letter, the President requested confirmation of the nominees from the Senate. Akpabio then referred the request to the Committee of the Whole for immediate deliberation.

This development followed Tinubu’s decision to reshuffle his cabinet where five ministers were relieved of their positions.

The minsters were Uju-Ken Ohanenye (Women Affairs); Lola Ade-John (Tourism); Prof Tahir Mamman (Education); Abdullahi Muhammad Gwarzo (State, Housing and Urban Development), and Jamila Bio Ibrahim (Youth).