Nigeria, Dec. 4 -- 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...