Law Mefor This practice is good and global best, and time-honoured. You cannot put something on nothing and expect it to stand. In other words, you cannot put a first degree certificate on a base that lacks the secondary education foundation, as that level is designed as the feeder to the
Tag: President Muhammadu Buhari
Election Petition: Buhari shocks Tribunal, closes defence after seven witnesses…
Jude Johnson In a dramatic turn of event on Thursday, President Muhammadu Buhari abruptly terminated his defense in the petition filed by the presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, (PDP), Atiku Abubakar and his party seeking to upturn the declaration of Buhari as winner of the February 23 presidential
Insecurity: Buhari hints on changes in military to re-energise troops
President Muhammadu Buhari on Wednesday hinted on possible changes in the nation’s security architecture with a view to reinvigorate and re-energise it in the ongoing fight against terrorism and violent crimes in the country. The president gave the hint when he received traditional rulers from the South West zone of the
Nigeria buries soldiers at night in secret cemetery
•While president says war against Islamist insurgency is won, army conceals toll in unmarked graves Joe Parkinson | Photographs by Jonathan Torgovnik At the northern edge of this city’s sprawling military base, a vast field of churned soil conceals the hidden toll of a deadly offensive by the allies of Islamic State. After dark,
Election Petition: Confusion in Buhari’s camp as WAEC disowns Cambridge document
•We have no hand in Buhari's Cambridge documents, the exam body tells Tribunal Jude Johnson The West African Examination Council (WAEC), has told the presidential election Petition Tribunal in Abuja that the body has no hand in the issuance of results to President Muhammadu Buhari by the Cambridge University International Assessment
Buhari certificate raises dust at Tribunal…
•Abba Kyari admitted receiving Buhari's 1961 WASSCE Certificate from Cambridge July 18 Jude Johnson The controversy surrounding the educational qualification of President Muhammadu Buhari for the February 23 presidential election, took a center stage at the presidential election petition tribunal with more revelations emerging on the issue. Although President Muhammadu Buhari had in
Buhari dragged to Supreme Court for perjury
•As appellants seek his disqualification Jude Johnson Appellants in the suit challenging the qualification of President Muhammadu Buhari for the 2019 presidential election has approached the Supreme Court to nullify the candidacy of President Buhari in the just concluded presidential poll. The move to ventilate their grievances at the apex court was occasioned
New ministers are Nigeria’s third eleven–HURIWA
•Most of them tainted with corruption allegations Jude Johnson The Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA) has criticized the decision of president Muhammadu Buhari not to appoint real tested and trusted statesmen/women and hard core patriotic technocrats as members of his cabinet but chose to nominate party loyalists most of whom
Glimmer of Hope? The only seven women who made Buhari’s ministerial list
Editor's note: President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday sent the list of his ministerial nominees to the senate with only seven women out of the 43 names. This means that women have only 16 percent of the proposed cabinet. However, this represents a marginal increase in an administration that has often
Buhari’s ministerial list of doom or boom?
Fredrick Nwabufo Reinforcing failure is trying to solve a problem with the same washed-out tools, methods and live-ware. A president is as good as his cabinet; this is the reason competence and character, and not political value, must take precedence over every other item in a detailing list. Just like in the