Former President Muhammadu Buhari’s camp has dismissed recent allegations made by Okoi Obono-Obla, one of his former aides, calling him an “empty vessel making the loudest noise.” In a statement issued by Buhari’s media aides, Obono-Obla’s outburst was criticized as baseless and misleading. The statement read, “A lot of people are circulating the fantastical ...

  Mohammed Bello Adoke, who turned 60 on September 1, 2023 served Nigeria as Attorney General and Minister of Justice, April 6, 2010- May 29, 2015. He holds the esteemed, silky rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR). He is one of the finest gentlemen that I ...

Mohammed Bello Adoke, who turned 60 on September 1, 2023 served Nigeria as Attorney General and Minister of Justice, April 6, 2010- May 29, 2015. He holds the esteemed, silky rank of a Senior Advocate of Nigeria (SAN), and Commander of the Federal Republic (CFR). He is one of the finest gentlemen that I know, ...

As President Muhammadu Buhari’s Administration expired, there have been arguments that the President’s 8-year administration, which we would tag as his legacy, has left Nigerians with unfulfilled expectations. While many believe that the President has reneged on several fronts in the last eight years, others believe that he did the best he could under the ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the conferment of National honours on 338 Nigerians and friends of Nigeria to mark the country’s democratic transition to another government. Mrs Ibiene Roberts, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of Special Duties and Intergovernmental Affairs, said this in a circular issued on Sunday in Abuja. “There is one person to be ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has condoled with Rotary International over the passing of the first and only African President, Jonathan Majiyagbe, at the age of 88. Buhari, in a statement by his spokesman, Femi Adesina, on Saturday in Abuja, said he joined family members, friends and associates of the renowned lawyer in grief. He saluted the ...

The outgoing Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Festus Keyamo says it is an aberration to appoint a Minister of State. He stated this while making a speech during a valedictory session chaired by President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday. Citing some portions of the constitution, Keyamo, however, noted that his observation was not out ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.) has commissioned the newly built Nigeria Customs Service Corporate Headquarters in Abuja today, May 23, 2023. This commissioning comes after the President inaugurated the Dangote Refinery and Petrochemicals, established by the President of Dangote Group, Aliko Dangote, in Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State, on Monday. The new smart Corporate Headquarters ...

A Federal High Court sitting in Abuja last week ordered the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to account for the spending of €418.40 million Chinese loan to fund the failed Abuja Closed-Circuit Television (CCTV) project. The Court also ordered the government to publish the total amount of money paid to Chinese and local companies and ...

  President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Barrister Abubakar Abdulhamid Bununu, the Attorney General & Commissioner for Justice, Bauchi State as a member of the Council of Legal Education (Nigeria Law School) for a period of four years. This was contained in a letter of appointment signed by the Solicitor General of the ...

A fortnight after President Muhammadu Buhari withheld assent to 16 of the 35 Constitution Alteration Bills, a human rights lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana, SAN, yesterday, said the decision by the president to withhold assent on some of the alteration bills to the constitution contravened Section 9 of the 1999 Constitution as amended. But Justice Okechukwu ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhamma­du Buhari and the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) for the arbitrary use of the NBC Act and broadcasting code to sanction and threaten to revoke the licences of broad­cast stations in the country and shut them down over their legitimate coverage of ...

The Deputy Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Ahmed Idris Wase on Friday commended President Muhammadu Buhari for assenting to some momentous legislation that altered some provisions of the 1999 Constitution. Wase who doubles as the Chairman, Special Ad-hoc Committee on the review of the 1999 Constitution noted that the Constitution (Fifth Alteration) bill, ...

The Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS) has called on President Muhammadu Buhari to ensure the commencement of the implementation of improved salaries for judges before the expiration of his administration on May 29, 2023. Buhari, had last November, announced an improved welfare packages for judicial officers whose salaries were last reviewed in 2007. Before the ...

Human rights lawyer, Monday Ubani says President Muhammadu Buhari has overruled the Supreme Court with his Thursday declaration that old N500 and N1,000 notes are no longer tender. Ubani, who is the Chairman of the Nigerian Bar Association Section on Public Interest and Development Law (SPIDEL) spoke Thursday on Channels Television’s The 2023 Verdict He ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is in contempt of the Supreme Court following his national broadcast Thursday morning on the new naira notes design policy, activist-lawyer Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, SAN, has said. Adegboruwa said by purporting to vary the apex court’s order that all the old notes should continue to be legal tender, the President committed “executive rascality.” ...