 President of the Senate Ahmed Lawan has forwarded President Mohammad Ibrahim's nominees into the Board of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, to the Committee on Anticorruption and Financial Crimes for Screening. Also forwarded were the names of appointees into the newly established boards of the Nigerian Meadstream and Downstream Petroleum Regulatory Authority and Upstream Regulatory Commission to the Committees on Petroleum Downstream and Upstream respectively. Denominies were referred to the relevant committees for legislative action on Wednesday during the start of plenary proceedings following the receipt of three separate requests from the President to that effect.