The Police Service Commission (PSC) has approved the appointment of six new Deputy Inspectors General of Police (DIGs) to replace those recently retired by police authorities. In a statement released on Tuesday, the PSC’s Head of Press and Public Relations, Ikechukwu Ani, announced the appointment of Sadiq Idiris Abubakar, Benjamin Nebolisa Okolo, Williams Adebowale, Bzigu ...

  The Police Service Commission (PSC) has directed the immediate retirement of senior police officers who have either exceeded 35 years in service or attained the age of 60, in accordance with civil service regulations. The decision, announced after an extraordinary meeting of the commission, comes amid growing calls for the retirement of Inspector General ...

A total of 658 military personnel from the Nigerian Armed Forces, including the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Defence Intelligence Agency (DIA), officially retired from active service today. The retirees, consisting of 535 from the Nigerian Army, 86 from the Navy, 35 from the Air Force, and two from the DIA, either voluntarily retired or ...

  Exactly three weeks after his inauguration, President Bola Tinubu on Monday removed all service chiefs in Nigeria and appointed new ones whom he directed to resume with immediate effect. “President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, GCFR, has approved the immediate retirement of all Service Chiefs and the Inspector-General of Police, Advisers, Comptroller-General of Customs from Service ...

The President of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA),Yakubu Maikyau, SAN has lauded the outgoing Director, Legal Drafting of the Federal Ministry of Justice, Barr. Ifunaya Nwajagu, for being a dutiful, and industrious public servant. Maikyau made the remarks over the weekend in Abuja at a send forth on retirement ceremony organised for the retiring director. ...

The Organised Labour on Monday demanded the review of retirement age for all public servants from 60 to 65 years and from 35 years to 40 years of service. The Organised Labour made the demand during this year’s Workers’ Day Celebration with the theme, ‘Workers’ Rights and Socioeconomic Justice’. Past and present leaders of the ...

The number of Justices of the Supreme Court will further be depleted on May 23, 2023 with the retirement of another justice of the court, Justice Ejembi Eko. Born on May 23, 1952, in Otukpo, Benue State, Justice Eko who was elevated to the bench of the apex court in November 2016, will bow out ...

A Supreme Court judge, Mary Peter-Odili, retired after attaining the retirement age of 70 on Thursday. Speaking at the valedictory court session held in her honour, Mrs Peter-Odili lamented the spate of violent crimes in Nigeria, which she attributed to youth unemployment. At the event which was held at the Supreme Court in Abuja, the ...

Erudite jurist, Justice Mary Ekaego Peter Odili of the Supreme Court of Nigeria is to officially bow out of the nation’s Judiciary on Thursday, May 12, 2022. Mrs Odili, who is one of the earliest women to be elevated to the Supreme Court bench, will step aside having attained the mandatory retirement age of seventy ...

Retirement age for teachers throughout Nigeria is now 65, as President Muhammadu Buhari assented to Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act, 2022. The bill was one of the four bills recently passed by the National Assembly which Buhari signed on Friday. The Harmonised Retirement Age for Teachers in Nigeria Act provides for the ...

Retired Assistant Inspector-General of Police, Joseph Mbu, has approached the National Industrial Court to seek certain reliefs against the Police Service Commission over his compulsory retirement. Mbu dragged the PSC to the court to invalidate his retirement which he said was a compulsory one. However, the defendant was not in court, neither was its legal ...

It was a harvest of eulogies on July 23, as colleagues, associates, friends and others gathered in Abuja at a send-off for the retiring Solicitor-General of the Federation (SGF) and Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Justice, Dayo Apata (SAN).