President Muhammadu Buhari has forwarded the names of 46 ambassadorial nominees to the Senate.
The announcement was read out by the Senate President, Bukola Saraki, during the plenary session on Thursday morning.
Some of the notable figures in the list of non-career ambassadorial nominees include the former speaker of the Lagos State House of Assembly, Senator Olorunibe Mamora, and a former Supreme Court Justice, George Oguntade.
Also on the list is former deputy governor of Plateau State, Pauline Tallen, and former deputy governor of Niger State, Musa Ibeto, who was dropped from the president’s ministerial list in 2015.
The Senate is yet to conclude the screening and confirmation of the 47 career foreign service officers sent by the President in July.
Here is a full list of the ambassadorial nominees (alphabetically)
Abdullahi Garbasi (Zamfara)
Ade Asekun (Ogun)
Adegboyega Ogunwusi (Osun)
Ashimiyu Olaniyi (Oyo)
Ayodele Ayodeji (Ekiti)
Baba Madugu (Bauchi)
Chris Eze (Enugu)
Christopher Okeke (Anambra)
Clifford Zirra (Adamawa)
D Abdulkadir (Kano)
Deborah Iliya (Kaduna)
Enyantu Ifenne (Benue)
Etuborn Asuquo (Cross River)
Francis Efeduma (Delta)
Garba Gajam (Zamfara)
George Oguntade (Lagos)
Godwin Umo (Akwa Ibom)
Haruna Bawa Abdullahi (Plateau)
Haruna Ungogo (Kano)
Isa Dodo (Katsina)
Jamila Ahmadu-Suka (Sokoto)
Jonah Odo (Ebonyi)
Kabiru Umar (Sokoto)
Modupe Irele (Lagos)
Mohammad Yaro (Kaduna)
Mohammed Hayatuddeen (Borno)
Mohammed Yisa (Kwara)
Muhammad Dalhatu (Jigawa)
Musa Ibeto (Niger)
Musa Mohammad (Nasarawa)
Mustapha Jaji (Taraba)
Nurudeen Mohammed (Kwara)
Olorunibe Mamora (Lagos)
Orji Ngofa (Rivers)
Pauline Tallen (Plateau)
Sola Iki (Ondo)
Stanley Diriyai (Bayelsa)
Suleiman Hassan (Gombe)
Sylvanus Adiewere Nsofor (Rivers)
Tijani Bande (Kebbi)
Usman Bugaje (Katsina)
Igbe (Edo)
Uzoma Emenike (Abia)
Y O Aliu (Kogi)
Yusuf Tugar (Bauchi)
Zanna Bura (Yobe).
(Senate in session 2)