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The president’s request was conveyed in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during Thursday’s plenary.
byAbdulqudus Ogundapo December 4, 2025 Reading Time: 1 mins read
President Bola Tinubu has forwarded 65 additional nominees for ambassadorial positions to the Senate for screening and confirmation.

The president’s request was conveyed in a letter read by the Senate President, Godswill Akpabio, during Thursday’s plenary.



The nominees include career and non-career ambassadors and high commissioners.

This development comes a week after Mr Tinubu transmitted the names of three nominees for non-career ambassadorial appointments.


In his latest letter, Mr Tinubu said 34 persons were nominated as career ambassadors and high commissioners, while 31 others were nominated as non-career ambassadors and high commissioners.

Some of the prominent nominees are Mahmood Yakubu, the immediate-past chairman of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC); ex-presidential aide Reno Omokri, ex-governors Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi of Enugu State and Okezie Ikpeazu of Abia State, former Deputy Governor of Lagos State, Femi Pedro; Ondo North senator, Jimoh Ibrahim; Florence, the wife of the late governor of Oyo State, Abiola Ajimobi, and former Ekiti State first lady, Angela Adebayo.



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Notable nominees among the career ambassadorial nominees are Sulu-Gambari Ahmed (Kwara State) and Segun Ige (Edo), while the non-career ambassadorial nominees include a former senator from Adamawa State, Grace Bent, and a former senator from Akwa-Ibom, Ita Enang.

After reading the letter, the senate president referred the request to the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs and directed the committee to report back within one week.

Details later…

Full list of the 68 ambassadors-designate appointed by President Tinubu

CAREER AMBASSADORS (34):

1. Abia: Ambassador Mwaobiola Ezeuwo Chukwuemeka
2. Adamawa: Maimuna Ibrahim
3. Anambra: Enpeji Monica Okochukwu
4. Bauchi: Ambassador Mohammed Mahmoud Lele
5. Bayelsa: Endoni Sindup
6. Borno: Ambassador Ahmed Mohammed Monguno
7. Cross River: Ambassador Jen Adams Ni Okun Michael
8. Delta: Ambassador Clark Omeru Alexandra
9. Ebonyi: Chima J. Leoma Davies
10. Edo: Oduma Yvonne Ehinose
11. Edo: Wasa Shogun Ige
12. Ekiti: Ambassador Adeyemi Adebayo Emmanuel
13. Enugu: Ambassador Onaga Ogechukwu Kingsley
14. Jigawa: Ambassador Magaji Umar
15. Kaduna: Ambassador Mohammed Saidu Dahiru
16. Kano: Ambassador Abdul Salam Abus Zayat
17. Katsina: Ambassador Shehu
18. Katsina: Ambassador Aminu Nasu
19. Kebbi: Abubakar Musa Musa
20. Kebbi: Ambassador Haidara Mohammed Idris
21. Kogi: Ambassador Bako Adamu Umar
22. Kwara: Ambassador Sulu Gambari
23. Lagos: Ambassador Romata Mohammed Omobolanle
24. Nasarawa: Ambassador Shaga John Shama
25. Niger: Salau Hamza Mohammed
26. Niger: Ambassador Ibrahim Dan Lamy
27. Ogun: Adjola Ibrahim Mopolola
28. Ondo: Ruben Abimbola Samuel
29. Osun: Ambassador Akonde Wahab Adekola
30. Oyo: Ambassador Ariwani Adedokun Esther
31. Plateau: Ambassador Gedagi Joseph John
32. Rivers: Ambassador Luther Obomode Ayokatata
33. Taraba: Danladi Yakubu Yaku
34. Zamfara: Bidu Dogondagi

NON-CAREER AMBASSADORS (31)

35. Dr. Victor Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia)
36. Barrister Ogbonnaya Kalu (Abia)
37. Adamawa: Senator Grace Bent
38. Akwa Ibom: Senator Eta Enang
39. Anambra: Nkechi Linda Okocha
40. Bauchi: Mahmoud Yakubu
41. Bayelsa: Philip K. Ikurusi
42. Benue: Paul Olga Adiku
43. Cross River: Vice Admiral Ibok-Ette Ibas (rtd.)
44. Delta State: Reno Omokri
45. Edo: Hon. Abbasi Brahma
46. Ekiti: Erelu Angela Adebayo
47. Ekiti: Barrister Olumilua Oluwayemika
48. Enugu: Rt. Hon. Ugwanyi Ifeanyi
49. Imo: Barr. Mrs. Chioma Ohakim
50. Kano: Lt. Gen. Abdulrahman Bello Dambazau (rtd.)
51. Katsina: Hon. Tasiu Musa Maigari
52. Kogi: Alhaji Abubakar Sanusi Aliu
53. Lagos: Olufemi Pedro
54. Nasarawa: Barr. Mohammed Obanduma Aliu
55. Ondo: Senator Jimoh Ibrahim, PhD
56. Ondo: Ambassador Joseph Yusuf Shara’aji
57. Osun: Fani-Kayode
58. Oyo: Ajimobi Fatima Florence
59. Oyo: Lola Akande
60. Plateau: Yakubu N. Gambo
61. Plateau: Senator Prof. Nora Ladi Daduut
62. Rivers: Onweze Chukwudi
63. Sokoto: Dr. Kulu Haruna Abubakar
64. Taraba: Rt. Hon. Jerry Samuel Manwe
65. Yobe: Adamu Garba Tarba-Nagri

FIRST BATCH CLEARED BY SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN AFFAIRS (3)

66. Oyo State: Ayodele Oke
67. Jigawa: Amin Mohammed Dalhatu
68. Ogun: Retired Colonel Lateef Kayode Are

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/840649-tinubu-nominates-65-more-ambassadors-ex-governors-ex-senators-included.html

Good. Those who want to cry can start crying all over again.

The level of "padi padi " and "rub my palm, i rub your palm" that governs this government is simply astonishing.

Using every available opportunity to either settle some corners or to bribe some other corner is the height of kwaruption..

All the best to them . That's progress in life

All thanks to Donald Trump.

Noted.. they should proceed for senate confirmation and get to work asap.. no time

Stop being silly with this childish comment all over the place!.. which “trump”?

iwaeda:
All thanks to Donald Trump.

commoditiesnig:
Stop being silly with this childish comment all over the place!.. which “trump”?

Unfortunately, he is right. APC tried to defend the fact that Tinubu did not appoint ambassadors but here we are today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6D8wnn3U8k

Tone deaf bespectacled bald cretin

commoditiesnig:
Stop being silly with this childish comment all over the place!.. which “trump”?

The President is faster to appoint his renewed hope ambassadors for his political ambition than country ambassadors that is for the good for all

Nlfpmod, the reward system neglected people like, Shehu, Joe, Yul, OPD.

commoditiesnig:
Stop being silly with this childish comment all over the place!.. which “trump”?

God bless you, may your generation not be slaves forever.

Anybody wey no like the list, make the person nominate him own list and carry the list go him community association meeting for approval

“He’s right” about what? Lol you this children all over Social media eh! Stop making mockery of yourselves.

Everything to you is politics. I don’t do politics okay!

Do you know how much it takes to run an Embassy, overheads and other local/foreign arrangement? You think a President will just purposely not appoint Ambassadors at his and country own detriment? Lol

I was @ the Nigeria Embassy in Ankara, Turkey around 2yrs back to renew my passport, I marvelled at the personnel and processes at the Embassy. I could decipher the huge running cost required for such Embassy to operate.

To assign Ambassadors and put things together not a small feat o. Many countries have closed their embassies in other countries due to huge running cost.

AGAIN NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE POLITICS!

SixSeven:
Unfortunately, he is right. APC tried to defend the fact that Tinubu did not appoint ambassadors but here we are today.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6D8wnn3U8k

SixSeven:
The President is faster to appoint his renewed hope ambassadors for his political ambition than country ambassadors that is for the good for all

commoditiesnig:
“He’s right” about what? Lol you this children all over Social media eh! Stop making mockery of yourselves.

Everything to you is politics. I don’t do politics okay!

You don’t know how much it takes to run an Embassy, overheads and other local/foreign arrangement.. You think a President will just purposely not appoint Ambassadors to his and country own detriment? Lol

I was @ the Nigeria Embassy in Ankara, Turkey around 2yrs back to renew my passport, I marvelled at the personnel and processes at the Embassy. I could decipher the huge running cost required for such Embassy to operate.

To assign Ambassadors and put things together not a small feat o. Many countries have closed their embassies in other countries due to huge cost.

AGAIN NOT EVERYTHING SHOULD BE POLITICS!

Daddy, all of these are excuses. Did you listen to the analysis at all? Wasn't it the absence of diplomatic relations that made Trump score into an open net? Didn't diplomatic analysts recommend he appoints ambassadors? Are you telling me that foreign policy is not part of government policy? Or you don't know that is a form of defence for Nigeria, strategic defence especially? Or when he went traveling to France and other countries looking for investors, he didn't know that ambassadors were important to those missions?

Nigeria has lost its place to SA because since APC came in, they have not being strategic with foreign policy and here you are telling me about costs like you don't know those offices are part of our foreign investment, security and trade policy. If we had ambassadors, do you think Trump would have openly raised the issue online when we had no reps. The US already listed that we have no ambassadors and envoy and you are here telling me about costs. At what cost is he now appointing them? At the cost of foreign interference?

Please tell another tale. You are the one playing politics here. There is politics, there is governance. You can't keep on making excuses when it's time for governance. Smh

No new blood, just recycling.