There was mild drama in the Senate yesterday as outage disrupted the screening of 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees by the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs.

The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs is pushing for Diaspora voting in the coming general elections in 2019, Chairman, Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Sen. Monsurat Sunmonu has said.

The Senate has refused to confirm all the 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees forwarded to it by President Muhammadu Buhari. It, however, approved all the 47 designated as career envoys.