The Presidency again on Friday raised the alarm over what it called planned orchestrated smear campaign against the President , Major General Muhammadu Buhari ( retd . ) , using some online newspapers and blogs. The Special Adviser to the President on Media and Publicity , Femi Adesina, made the claim in a statement titled […]
Human Rights Lawyer, Mr. Femi Falana (SAN), says the nation has continued in its habit of operating under an atmosphere of impunity. Speaking on the appointment of the new Service Chiefs, Mr. Falana said going on to appoint the new leaders of the Armed Forces without the confirmation by the two chambers of the National […]
President Muhammadu Buhari has written a letter to the National Assembly seeking the confirmation of the service chiefs. The Senior Special Assistant to the President on National Assembly ( Senate ) , Babajide Omoworare, said this in a statement on Friday. He said after nominating the service chiefs , Buhari in a letter dated January […]
The Police Service Commission, on Thursday, announced the promotion of nine Commissioners of Police to the rank of Assistant Inspector General of Police and nine Deputy Commissioners of Police to Commissioners of Police while also promoting over 20,356 senior police officers. This was contained in a statement made available to newsmen in Abuja by the […]
The outgone Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai, said a former President of Nigeria, Olusegun Obasanjo, nearly retired him as a young officer in the Nigerian Army 21 years ago. Buratai, who said he was at the rank of Major at that time, described his attainment to the peak of his career, Lieutenant […]
Northern elders on Thursday applauded President Muhammadu Buhari for taking action sacking the nation ’ s service chiefs but knocked him for excluding South East from the appointments. According to them , Buhari “ ought to have disappointed some of his critics that he doesn ’ t hate the Igbo as it’ s widely insinuated […]
President Muhammadu Buhari is currently meeting with the new service Chiefs. The meeting is being held behind closed-door at the Council Chambers of the Presidential Villa in Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory. This first meeting between the Commander-In-Chief and the new leaders of the Armed Forces is coming one day after the president accepted the […]
A total of 376 cows have been impounded by the Benue State Livestock Guards from Guma Local Government Area of the state. The Deputy Governor of the state, Engr Benson Abounu, who paraded the confiscated animals before newsmen in Makurdi on Wednesday, explained that the cattle were arrested from some heavily armed herders in Kaseyo […]
The Northern Elders Forum (NEF) has warned that the change of Service Chiefs should not become cosmetic. Speaking through its spokesman, Dr. Hakeem Baba-Ahmed, the NEF said the nation should not be carried away by the change, stressing that while it is important that the Armed Forces has new leadership, it is more pertinent to […]
A human rights activist and author, Comrade Paul Ikechukwu Njoku, has lamented that President Muhammadu Buhari “marginalises the Igbo in his historically lopsided appointments since 2015 till date”. Mr. Njoku, added that the unprecedented oath of 5percent ill- treatment against the Igbo by the Buhari-led government is utterly unacceptable and vindictive, noting that the Igbo […]
