Power Failure During Ambassadorial Nominees Screening At The Senate

The screening of the non-career ambassadorial nominees for whom President Muhammadu Buhari is seeking legislative approval -was disrupted earlier today at the Senate’s New Building. According to reports, the power outage went off at exactly 12:13pm and the Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, which was conducting the exercise for the 46 nominees, had to continue with the screening in darkness after light could not be restored.

The exercise was being coordinated by the Chairman of the Committee, Senator Monsurat Sunmonu; and the Vice-Chairman, Senator Shehu Sani.

Source; http://www.nationalhelm.net/2017/02/screening-of-ambassadorial-nominees.html

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