- The Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, last Tuesday, commenced the screening of the 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees

- The names of the nominees were forwarded to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation

- An embarrassing incident occurred during the screening

A report by New Telegraph has detailed how there was power outage in the Senate new building complex last week Tuesday, February 7.


Blackout in Senate as senators screen ambassadorial nominees

According to the report, the incident happened when the Senate committee on foreign affairs were screening the 46 non-career ambassadorial nominees forwarded to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari for confirmation.

The substantial part of the screening was carried out in total darkness on the first day due to the situation as it lasted for about one and half hours.

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When the outage initially occurred, the expectation was that the screening would be paused for power to be restored but the chairman of the committee, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu and other members of the committee defied the darkness and continued with the exercise.

The venue later became stuffy and virtually unbearable and was partially illuminated with phones torchlight, while camera men increased their inbuilt camera lights to illuminate the arena to be able to get sharp images of the persons they wanted to capture.

Eminent Nigerians who were nominated for ambassadorial appointments went through the hectic process without complaining.

Some of them who were interviewed on their feelings about the power outage refused to make comments, while others said as Nigerians; it was not strange to them because they knew that the country is still undergoing challenges in many areas.

The nominees who were screened are Goni Bura (Yobe), Yusuf Tuggar (Bauchi), Ahmed Ibeto (Niger), Kabiru Umar (Sokoto) and Baba Madugu (Bauchi). Others are Baba Jidda (Borno), Justice George Oguntade (Lagos), Garba Gajam (Zamfara), Bala Mairiga (Zamfara), Christopher Okere (Anambra), Etubom Asuquo (Cross River) and Nurudeen Mohammed (Kwara).

The list also has Amin Dalhatu (Jigawa), Ahmed Bamali (Kaduna), Professor Dandatti Abdulkadir (Kano), Justice Isa Dodo (Katsina), Professor Mohammed Yisa (Kwara), Mrs. Modupe Irele (Lagos) and Suzanne Folarin (Ogun). Major General Ashimiyu Olaniyi (Oyo), Oriji Ngofa (Rivers), Jonah Odo (Ebonyi) and Eniola Ajayi (Ekiti) also made the list.

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Shame no dey catch this country at all

Ok

Dis is good, let them see hw we r suffering too

When me never set my eye on NEPA light for the pass 3 weeks now...

Before you quote me, our Transformer is still working and no cable cut neither do we have any faulty pole!

What's so special about dis...de building in question is it not in Nigeria....is there any part of Nigeria were you can find constant power? We are all in dis shit together

When those you elected to help you cant even help themselves..

BLACKCHARGER:
Shame no dey catch this country at all

Nigeria nah country?

Kondomatic:
Nigeria nah country?

No, na village.