Col. Sagir Musa has been appointed as acting Director Army Public Relations. The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Musa replaces Brig.-Gen. Sani Usman, who voluntarily retired from the service on Thursday. NAN also reports that Musa’s appointment is contained in a new redeployment of senior officers released by the Army Headquarters. Until the […]

The suspension of Nigeria’s most senior judge by President Muhammadu Buhari broke international human rights standards on independence of the judiciary and the separation of powers, a U.N. expert said on Monday. Buhari, who was a military ruler in the 1980s and was voted into office in 2015, is hoping to win a new term […]

The Federal High Court, Abuja, has warned the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and others involved in the move to sell Etisalat (9mobile) against taking any further step in that direction. The development followed a claim by some aggrieved investors that in spite of a subsisting order of court made on […]

The Joint Admissions and Matriculation Board (JAMB) on Monday said that it was fully prepared for the 2019 Unified Tertiary Matriculation Examination (UTME). The board made this known in its weekly Bulletin of the Office of the Registrar and made available to the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja. According to the report, the […]

The signing into law of the bill for using movable assets as collateral, popularly known as Collateral Registry Act, precisely on May 30, 2017, was greeted with not only resounding applauds from the financial system stakeholders, but also described as a move in the right direction. The law, which came on the realisation that small […]