President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his choices for appointments saying that those he appointed into offices in his administration have been on merit. The Nigerian leader stated this during an exclusive interview with Arise News on Thursday. According to the…
President Muhammadu Buhari has said pointedly that nobody will invest in a country that is not secured. Consequently, Mr Buhari has admonished Nigerian youth to behave themselves so that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) could come for them to be gainfully…
President Muhammadu Buhari has defended his decision to construct railways and roads extending into the Niger Republic. Buhari said this during an interview on Arise Television which aired on Thursday. The President said borders were arbitrarily drawn by the…
The federal government says it will withdraw monies from “special reserve lobby accounts” to part-fund its N895 billion supplementary budget approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC). Minister of Finance, Zainab Ahmed, disclosed this in Abuja on Wednesday. Ms Ahmed…
The Ikeja branch of the Nigerian Bar Association (NBA) has said the Judicial Staff Union of Nigeria (JUSUN) called off its strike too early, without achieving its aim of financial autonomy of the judiciary. Newsmen report that the 64-day-old strike,…
President Muhammadu Buhari turned down a question posed to him on Nigeria’s ban of microblogging platform Twitter but insisted on armed response to the troubles in the South-east. “I will keep that to myself,” Buhari said about his stance on…
The Federal Government has declared Monday, June 14 as a public holiday to mark this year’s Democracy Day. This is as the government warned against agitations capable of threatening the peace of the country. The Minister of Interior, Rauf Aregbesola,…
President Buhari Thursday inaugurated the commercial operations of Lagos-Ibadan railway project at the Mobolaji Johnson Railway Station, Ebute Metta, Lagos, describing the feat ‘‘as another milestone in the drive of this Administration to revitalize the railway system and establish it…
The Beijing Internet Court has ordered Tencent, a Chinese multinational technology conglomerate holding company to pay 10,000 yuan (US$1,538) to the Music Copyright Society of China for using music on its video-streaming site without proper […]
Taking account of the issue raised by the Kenya Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association in their statement of 4 June 2021 and by previous statements made by the Law Society of Kenya, the Commonwealth Magistrates’ and Judges’ Association (CMJA), The Commonwealth…