The Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN), Justice Tanko Muhammad, has said that it is difficult for the judiciary to be impartial and objective in a democracy, where it remains financially tied to the executive. Muhammad made this known yesterday, at the 2021 biannual All Nigeria Judges Conference for courts of superior records, at the National ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has called on the judiciary to devise and deploy stringent measures against lawyers, who in the cause of servicing their clients employ all kinds of delay tactics thereby hindering the speedy dispensation of justice in the country. President Buhari predicated the call on the need to make the justice sector more efficient ...

The President, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (retd.), on Friday, received the certificate of incorporation of the Nigeria National Petroleum Company Limited, saying the country expects nothing less from the Board of Directors, the Chief Executive Officer, and the Chief Finance Officer, “than the realization of a global national oil company that this nation desires and ...

President Muhammadu Buhari has sent a request to the Senate to amend the Petroleum Industry Act (PIA) 2021. The proposal for the amendment of the act follows plans to expand the membership of the board of directors and to address the issue of geographical balance in its membership among other changes. The request by the ...

Leaders from more than 80 countries would speak in-persons at the Assembly while other world leaders would speak through pre-recorded video messages.

The Amalgamated Union of Public Corporation Civil Service, Technical and Recreational Employees (AUPCTRE), an affiliate of the Nigeria Labour Congress, NLC, has petitioned President Muhammadu Buhari over what it described as a recent unholy partnership between Corporate Affairs Commission (CAC) and Code of Conduct Bureau (CCB) The petition, dated September 9, was signed by the ...

The new statistician-general replaces Yemi Kale, whose second term tenure of five years expired on August 16.

“The primary responsibility of the steering committee shall be to guide the effective and timely implementation of the PIA in the course of transition to the petroleum industry envisaged in the reform programme, and ensure that the new institutions created have the full capability to deliver on their mandate under the new legislation,” said a ...

His spokesperson, Femi Adesina, said in a statement that the president signed the bill at his home where he is observing a five-day “quarantine as required by the Presidential Steering Committee on COVID-19 after returning from London on Friday August 13”.

President Muhammadu Buhari has assured the British Prime Minister Boris Johnson that he won’t interfere with the judicial trial of terrorism suspects in Nigeria.

President Muhammadu Buhari yesterday signed the 2021 Supplementary Appropriation Bill of N982, 729,695,343 into law. The bill was sent to the National Assembly for approval last month after its approval by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). It was passed penultimate week by the legislators before proceeding on their annual vacation.

The protracted case of Omoyele Sowore and Olawale Bakare has highlighted, yet again, the primitive retaliatory tyrannical justice system of General Muhammadu Buhari’s despotic regime.

The readers may be wondering why I say again. It is to connect the past with the present. It is about Lai Mohammed’s unrelenting efforts to hamstring the media since 2017. It is not unusual in these climes to have spacecraft in readiness to transport leaders into the clouds for them to lose their heads. ...

Nigeria’s first startup Bill is set to be before the National Assembly in October. The bill will provide Nigeria’s tech entrepreneurs with an environment that allows them pursue their ambition for the betterment of the larger Nigerian economy. The Nigeria Startup Bill project is a joint initiative by Nigeria’s tech startup ecosystem and the Presidency ...

The refusal of the Senate to confirm Lauretta Onochie, President Muhammadu Buhari’s nominee, as national commissioner of the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), is a triumph of public opinion.

A man being considered by the Senate for appointment as INEC national commissioner, Prof. Sani Adams, was sanctioned on more than one occasion for physical assault, documents obtained by PREMIUM TIMES have shown. This may be one of the reasons he did not pass the screening exercise of the Senate committee that initially reviewed his ...