President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday requested the Senate to screen and confirm Itesiwaju-born journalist, Debo Adesina among 41 non-career and one career ambassadors for appointment.
Apart from Adesina, there are two other nominees from Oyo State – Adeshina Alege (Iseyin) and Mrs Folake Akinyele (Ibadan).
Buhari’s letter of request was read on the floor at plenary by the Senate President Ahmad Lawan.
Other nominees include ex-minister of State for Defence, Ademola Seriki (Lagos) and Mr. Dare Sunday Awoniyi (Kogi).
Adesina, who became editor of The African Guardian magazine at the age of 27 in 1993, becoming the youngest man to be appointed editor of a major publication in Nigeria at that time, hails from Okaka in Itesiwaju local government area of Oyo State
