President Bola Tinubu has nominated non-career ambassadors for the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
The three nominees are Ayodele Oke, Colonel Lateef Are (retd.), and Amin Dalhatu.
A post by his Special Adviser on Information and Strategy, Bayo Onanuga, on X revealed that ...ings would be finalised following Senate screening.
According to the statement, Dalhatu previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to South Korea under the Late President Muhammadu Buhari’s administration.
Oke, an alumnus of Emory University in Atlanta, is a former Director General of the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) and previously served as Nigeria’s ambassador to the Secretariat of the Commonwealth of Nations in London.
Colonel Are was the director general of the State Security Service (SSS) from 1999 to 2007, served as National Security Adviser in 2010, and was an officer in the Directorate of Military Intelligence.
He also graduated with First Class honours in Psychology from the University of Ibadan in 1980.
Tinubu had on Wednesday forwarded the names of three non-career ambassadorial nominees to the Senate for confirmation.