By Ikechukwu Nnochiri
A constitutional lawyer, Mr. Johnmary Jideobi, on Tuesday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja for an order to compel all the immediate past Service Chiefs, to refund all salaries, allowances, emoluments and benefits they received from December 18, 2017, to January 26, 2021.
The Plaintiff, in his suit marked FHC/ABJ/CS/183/2021, argued that tenures of the erstwhile Service Chiefs, were illegally extended for over four years by President Muhammadu Buhari, without the requisite confirmation of the National Assembly.
Specifically, he is asking the court to determine, “whether by the community reading and conflated interpretation of the provisions of Section 218 of the Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, 1999 as amended and Section 18 of the Armed Forces Act, Cap. A.20, Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, 2004, the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, whose power of appointment of service chiefs is subordinated to the confirmatio
UK Royal Navy is investigating a sailor who is alleged to have produced adult content on OnlyFans David Choi The Royal Navy is conducting an investigation into an officer operating an OnlyFans account. The story prompted other tabloids to report on the incident, much of which focused on speculation. One tabloid published lurid images and called her a humpin sailor.
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Buratai never condoned rights abuses, foreign embassies told
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By Dirisu Yakubu
Famous rights advocacy groups, the Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria, HURIWA and AFRIRIGHTS, Friday called on foreign embassies to dismiss allegations of human rights violations pressed against immediate past Chief of Army Staff, Lt. Gen. Tukur Buratai (retd) and other ex-service chiefs.
The bodies in letters addressed to some foreign embassies in the land noted that the ex-service chiefs discharged their duties in a professional manner and ethical standard of military tradition.
The Right groups in a statement jointly signed by the national coordinator of HURIWA, Comrade Emmanuel Onwubiko and the national media affairs director Miss. Zainab Yusuf, categorically stated that rather than recrimination and casting undue aspersions in a bid to ridicule the public standing and assassinate the character of General Buratai and other former military Chiefs, “these persons who had only just volu
Reps probe quality of multi-billion dollar imported arms by Buhari, Jonathan Reps probe quality of multi-billion dollar imported arms by Buhari, Jonathan
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The House of Representatives, on Thursday, flagged off its investigation into the quality of arms imported into the country worth several billions of dollars by President Muhammadu Buhari and his predecessor, President Goodluck Jonathan, over the past 10 years.
Chairman of the Ad-hoc Committee on the need to review the use and control of arms, ammunition and related hardware by Military, Paramilitary and other law enforcement agencies in Nigeria, Hon Olaide Akinremi disclosed this, in Abuja, while addressing representatives of newly appointed Service Chiefs and other paramilitary and security agencies, who attended the inauguration ceremony.
Our ‘converted democrat’ and the Constitution
President Muhammadu Buhari
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Thu Feb 11 2021
Candidate Muhammadu Buhari’s most internationally acclaimed speech is the one he delivered six years ago at Chatham House in London. At the peak of his election campaign and amidst concerns about his past record of dictatorship, he assured the world that he had been born-again. “I cannot change the past. But I can change the present and the future. So before you is a former military ruler and a converted democrat who is ready to operate under democratic norms…” Buhari repeated variants of this line several times before the election and upon being sworn-in as president.