At 2:00 p.m, the Senate President directed that the Senate should go into closed-door session and ordered Mr Keyamo to step out of the chamber.
Mr Tinubu forwarded their names to the upper house for confirmation as ministers on Wednesday.
The new nominee served as commissioner for higher education under Mr Ganduje, who was governor of Kano State from 2015 to 2023.The senators shelved the commencement of their annual recess last week to screen the ministerial nominees submitted to it in two separate correspondences to the lawmakers.Mr Tinubu had through his Chief of Staff, Femi Gbajabiamila, on 27 July sent the first list of 28 nominees to the Senate for confirmation. He sent the second list of 19 nominees on 3 August.
12:17 a.m: The Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, arrives at the Senate chamber for the commencement of today’s proceedings. Mr Opeyemi raised also raised a motion to suspend its rules and allow the Special Adviser to President Tinubu on legislative matters and other visitors to enter the Senate chamber.
The Kano nominee said she graduated from Bayero University, Kano in 2005 and was deployed to Plateau State for National Youth Service Corps . Suleiman Kawu , the senator representing Kano South where the nominee hails from, said the people of Kano State was excited when they heard the news of her nomination.Mr Kawu said the nominee is a grassroot person and had played important roles in the grassroot politics.Senator Osita Izunaso commend President Bola Tinubu for appointing the nominees. He asked the nominee what advice she would give the federal government in preparation to fight pandemic in future.
Mohammed Monguno asked a question on the qualifications of foreign-trained medical doctors. He asked the nominee why there is a high rate of failure when taking the MDCN examination. On foreign trained MBBS students. She said diseases differ across different countries, and students that are trained overseas may not get cases of diseases that are prevalent in Nigeria. She said students should take advantage of internships.
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