Saraki announces second batch of ministerial nominees

The President of the Senate, Dr. Abubakar Bukola Saraki, on Tuesday announced the names contained in the list of the second batch of ministerial nominees sent to the Senate by President Muhammadu Buhari.
The names were received on Monday evening by Saraki.
The announcement of the names followed a closed-door session by the Senate ahead of Tuesday’s sitting for the screening of the ministerial nominees.
Security at the National Assembly was tight on Tuesday.
Below are the names on the list of the second batch of ministerial nominees:
1. Hajia Khadija Bukar Ibrahim
2. Omoleye Daramola
3. Prof. Anthony Onwuka
4. Jeffrey Onyema
5. Dan Ali
6. Barrister James Ocholi
7. Zainab Ahmed
8. Okechukwu Enelamah
9. Muhammadu Bello
10. Mustapha Baba
11. Aisha Abubakar
12. Heineken Okpobiri
13. Adamu Adamu
14. Prof. Isaac Adewole
15. Abubakar Bawa.
Enelamah, a medical doctor, is the Co-Founder and CEO of African Capital Alliance, a leading private equity firm on the African continent.
He has a wealth of experience in investment banking having worked for Goldman Sachs in London and New York and Arthur Anderson in Nigeria.
He and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and a CFA charter.
He has served on a number of boards of blue chip companies, including Dorman Long Engineering Limited, Corner Stone Insurance Plc and UAC Nigeria Plc.
Daramola is a professor of education in the University of Ilorin, while Hon. Abba Ibrahim, a former First Lady of Yobe State, is a past Commissioner for Transport in the state and a three-term member of the House of Representatives.
Adamu is a veteran journalist who once worked for New Nigerian Newspapers and was a member of Buhari’s Transition Committee.
Anwuka is a former Secretary to the Imo State Government, while Adewole is a former Vice-Chancellor of the University of Ibadan and a professor of Obstetrics and Gynaecology.
Ocholi was until recently the former National Deputy Legal Adviser of the APC, who recently contested for the governorship ticket of the party in his state but lost to Abubakar Audu.
He was earlier a governorship aspirant on the platform of Congress for Progressive Change in the state.
Lokpobiri represented Bayelsa West Senatorial District in the National Assembly until 2015 and was once Speaker of the state assembly, while Brigadier General Mansur Dan Ali just chaired the APC Bayelsa State Gubernatorial Primary Committee after the first botched primary in the state.‎