Another presidential scam  packaged to break the Nigerian Governors Forum, NGF has been exposed. Following the defeat of President Jonathan's backed consensus candidate for the NGF chairmanship position, Jonah Jang by the incumbent chairman of the body, Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers state, Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom today released a doctured document purportedly signed by 19 state governors to elect Jang as t ...

Troops of the Special Operations have rescued three women and six children after overrunning 3 terrorists camps in the notorious Sambisa forest area of central Borno in the ongoing onslaught against Boko Haram insurgents.  The women and children who were kidnapped from Police Barracks and environs during the May 7 attack on Bama had been held in the camp since their abduction and were featured in the video ...

President Goodluck Jonathan has expressed shock at the terrorist attack and killing of a British soldier, Drummer Lee Rigby of the 2nd Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers in the Woolwich area of London, United Kingdom; and strongly condemns this unfortunate incident. A British citizen who is of Nigerian descent, Michael Adebolajo along with another suspect was said to have beheaded the soldier on the ...

 Nigerian authorities must not use the state of emergency imposed in the north of the country as an excuse to commit human rights violations, Amnesty International urged today as the military continued its assault on Islamist armed group Boko Haram. Several people have reportedly been killed and hundreds arrested since a state of emergency was declared in the northern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe on 14 ...

The Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has accused President Goodluck Jonathan of engaging in total deceit by saying the democratic structure in the states where he has declared a state of emergency will be kept intact, when in fact he has grabbed power in the states and castrated democracy there. In a statement issued in Kaduna today by its National Publicity Secretary, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, the party quoted ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...