President Muhammadu Buhari has assented to Executive Order 11 on National Public Buildings Maintenance. The signing of the document preceded the weekly Federal Executive Council held on Wednesday at the Council Chambers of the State House in Abuja. In his remarks shortly before appending his signature, President Buhari directed all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) ...

By Festus Adedayo

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari “over the failure to promptly and thoroughly probe allegations of systemic mismanagement of security votes by state governors since 1999, and to ensure the prosecution of those suspected to be responsible”. The suit followed Buhari’s 2022 New Year Message in ...

The ceremony for the signing of the re-worked Electoral Act Amendment Bill by President Muhammadu Buhari has commenced. The event is ongoing at the Council Chamber of the Presidential Villa in Abuja. Among those present at the ceremony which began at about midday are the Vice President, Professor Yemi Osinbajo; President of the Senate, Ahmed ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has approved the appointment of Mohammed Bello-Koko as the substantive managing director for the Nigerian Ports Authority (NPA). The federal ministry of transportation disclosed this on Tuesday in a circular signed by Eric Ojiekwe, director, press and public relations. “Prior to this appointment, Bello-Koko was the executive director, finance & administration of ...

Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has filed a lawsuit against President Muhammadu Buhari over “the failure to publish a copy of the agreement the Federal Government recently signed with Twitter, Inc, and the failure to publish the details of the terms and conditions of any such agreement”. Joined in the suit as the respondent ...

After days of speculations that have raised concern about the fate of the Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2021, the presidency assured yesterday that President Muhammadu Buhari is desirous of signing the bill into law. According to it, consultations are ongoing by the president, the Attorney-General of the Federation and minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami, and ...

“The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in any democracy, you have chaos” –Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian soldier and politician. Nigerians are exciting lovers of equity, justice and the rule of law. It is the reason, Nigeria’s statute books are replete with laws, which are periodically reviewed. ...

The rule of law is the basis for any democracy. And without the rule of law in any democracy, you have chaos” –Meles Zenawi, Ethiopian soldier and politician. Nigerians are exciting lovers of equity, justice and the rule of law. It is the reason Nigeria’s statute books are replete with laws, which are periodically reviewed. ...

American constitutional lawyer, Bruce Fein, has accused President Muhammadu Buhari of flouting court orders and unleashing malicious treatments on the detained leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, Nnamdi Kanu. Fein, who is also Kanu’s counsel, said the torture Buhari’s government had meted out on the IPOB leader was worse than what former South African ...

President Muhammadu Buhari is set to unveil bags of rice paddy numbering one million stacked as pyramids in Abuja, the nation’s capital. Considered to be the biggest of its type in Africa, the pyramids are located on the grounds of the Abuja Chamber of Commerce and Industries (ACCI) on Airport Road. The one million rice ...

President Muhammadu Buhari’s interview with Channels Television last week was quite extraordinary and explosive in terms of the insights he provided and how he responded to interviewers’ questions. Some of his answers have already created deep divisions within the country and generated controversies also. There were answers that astonished some people. In my view, the ...

The Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has faulted the decision of President Muhammadu Buhari to decline assent to the Electoral Act (Amendment) Bill 2021. In a statement dated December 22, NBA President Olumide Akpata described the President’s action as unfortunate, but unsurprising. In withholding assent to the bill, he explained that the President merely exercised a ...

The Socio-Economic Rights and Accountability Project (SERAP) has asked the government of President Muhammadu Buhari to “immediately take meaningful steps to implement several judgments obtained by SERAP against the Federal Government.” According to SERAP some of the judgements expected to be obeyed include verdicts to raise money to fund the budget, reduce the growing level ...

An online petition has been launched on the web-based petition aggregator, change.org. The petition was addressed to the International Criminal Court to arraign Nigeria’s President, Muhammadu Buhari, over his crimes against humanity. The petition, which has garnered 7, 013 signatories as of the time of filing this report, is titled, “Petition To The ICC To ...