ABUJA—National Judicial Council, NJC, yesterday, recommended the appointment of Justice Tanko Muhammad as the substantive Chief Justice of Nigeria, CJN.

ABUJA—PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari has endorsed the report on restructuring presented to him by the Governor Nasir el-Rufai-led All Progressives Congress, APC, committee.

The House of Representatives has resolved to probe the alleged clandestine recruitment process in Federal Government’s Ministry,  Department and Agencies, MDAs.

“We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us.” Winston Churchill I am writing this piece, not on the strength of ethnicity or religion, but a firm conviction of the true Nigerian spirit. As an officer of the Nigerian Army and from the South Eastern […]

The Save Humanity Advocacy Centre (SHAC) says the Nigerian troops are making progress in their fight against insurgency. The centre said this is as a result of high human rights compliance and regular visits of Tukur Buratai, chief of army staff, to soldiers on the battlefield. The Centre made the observation at the public presentation […]

Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, has again stressed its commitment to sustaining its partnership with university vice-chancellors and other academics in the country, saying their inclusion in the electoral process was vital to the sustenance of democracy in the country.

Senate President, Ahmed Lawan, has said the senate will set up an ad-hoc committee to work with their House of Representatives counterparts to investigate the crisis in Edo State House of Assembly.

It seems that armed herdsmen that came from the Niger Republic, Libya and other places as government said, are the ones to be settled in our midst, not the Fulani with cows going around every time

The Edo State Chapter of the Nigeria Labour Congress (NLC) has declared support for Edo State Governor, Mr. Godwin Obaseki, over his commitment to regular payment of salaries and pensions, education reforms and the revamp of road infrastructure, among other achievements.

President Muhammadu Buhari bowed to the inevitable last week. Following intense public outcry, he suspended the Rural Grazing Area, RUGA, project. But the RUGA plan is so dangerous, so provocative, that he was utterly wrong to have even mooted it. With RUGA, Buhari risks stoking the unravelling of Nigeria’s artificially maintained façade of unity.

ENUGU—SOUTH EAST based businessmen, mainly those engaged in import and export, have lamented the lull in their businesses, blaming same on lack of a functional seaport within the zone and double taxations.

YENAGOA—FORMER President Goodluck Jonathan and three governorship aspirants in Bayelsa State— former Federal Permanent Secretary, Ambassador Godknows Igali;former Coordinator of Presidential Amnesty, PAP, Mr Timi Alaibe, and Mr. Erepamo Osaisai— spoke, yesterday, on how to ensure a violence-free governorship election in the state in November.

ABUJA—THE Senate, yesterday, condemned Tuesday’s invasion of the National Assembly, NASS, by members of the Islamic Movement of Nigeria, IMN, the El-Zakzaky Shi’ite group, and asked that the perpetrators be arrested by security agencies.

FOR its unwavering devotion to functional education through emphasis on technology, entrepreneurship and technical skills, Nigeria’s premier technical university, First Technical University (Tech-U), Ibadan has been commended.

AFTER  decades  of proscribing the teaching of History as  a subject in schools, the Federal Government is set to commence the teaching in September.