Federal Republic of Nigeria Official Gazette   ___________________________________________________________________________________ NO. 28                                                Lagos ______20th May, 2013                                    Vol.100 Government  Notice No.85             The following is published as Supplement to this Gazette S.I No.                                                 Short ...

The trick behind the state of emergency rule declared in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states has been uncovered with the release of the official gazette of the order which empowers President Goodluck Jonathan to seize the monthly allocations of the affected states. iReports-ng.com gathered today that section 3 subsection 2(e) of the order as contained in its gazette empowers the president to take possession of t ...

Pro-North socio-political group, Arewa Consultative Forum, ACF today warned the nation that its fledging democracy is under the threat of being truncated by the desperation with which politicians are seeking to retain or get into public office during the 2015 elections. The body of Northern leaders raised the alarm in a communiqué issued at the end of its Board of Trustees and National Executive Council mee ...

The Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF finally stamped its independence and snubbed attempts by President Goodluck Jonathan to shift the venue of the election to the presidential villa. The forum which in a notice issued by its secretariat today said its 6th meeting in 2013 will not hold on Friday May 24th, 2013 at 4pm at the Rivers state governor's lodge in Asokoro area of Abuja. This is contrary to the moves b ...

The federal government will any moment now begin to release in their hundreds Boko Haram members who are being detained by security forces in line with the amnesty programme being put in place for the sect members by President Goodluck Jonathan administration. The move was confirmed in a statement by the Defence Headquarters in Abuja today. Director of Defence Information, Brig. Gen. Chris Olukolade in the ...

Twenty-eight years after scholarship awards were last awarded in Oyo State, Governor Abiola Ajimobi on Tuesday presented a total of N100 million to the students of the state origin in tertiary institutions across the country for year 2011/2012. Both the students and the parents who were present at the House of Chiefs, venue of the ceremony, were overwhelmed as the governor presented a symbolic cheque of N10 ...

A total of 100 senators today voted in support of the declaration of a state of emergency in Borno, Yobe and Adamawa states at a closed session of the assembly where  President Goodluck Jonathan's request for approval for the proclamation of emergency rule in the troubled states was considered. A senator who attended the session today said 93 of them signed the attendance register in addition to nine princi ...

Anambra State commissioner for works Arc Calistus Ilozumba has been in the news lately for all sorts of reasons. Ilozumba it was who flew into an uncontrollable rage because his principal and kinsman Mr Peter Obi, governor of Anambra State was asked to justify the expenditure of the sum of N2 trillion, based on available infrastructure and delivery in the state. In the process, he described the call made by ...

Barely three days to the election of the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF, Chairmanship position, a desperate President Goodluck Jonathan has gone for the jugular of the incumbent Chairman of the body and current governor of Rivers state, Rotimi Amaechi by threatening the ruling PDP governors to pressure other opposition parties governors to agree to hold the election right under his watch in the presidential ...

Towing the line of Adamawa and Borno states which had imposed curfew, the Yobe state government today announced a 6pm to 6am curfew in the state. President Jonathan had in a nationwide broadcast declared a state of emergency in three North East states of Borno, Yobe and Adamawa. He however said the emergency rule will not affect the democratic structures in the affected states. A statement issued today by t ...