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 ...

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 ...

Defiant Nigerian Petroleum Minister, Diezani Allison-Madueke has defended her decision to transfer the ownership of four oil blocs owned by the federal government through the Nigerian Petroleum Development Company Limited to a company owned by her and run by Mr. Jide Omokore,  Atlantic Energy Drilling Concept. The oil blocs are valued at over USD$15.72 trillion. The minister's defence of the flagrant lootin ...

The series of crises rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP seem unabated as a group of sacked National Officers of the party led by former Osun state governor, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola appears set to fight dirty with the ailing National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur who they accused of getting desperate in his bid to hold on to the leadership of the party. This is made clear in th ...

With a comprehensive amnesty programme already slated for the Boko Haram islamist sect to appease the North, President Jonathan's tact team appears to have resolved to shift attention to south west Nigeria in a calculated design to win support for his ambition to re-contest the 2015 presidential election. Impeccable sources in the presidential villa told iReports-ng.com that a number of influential personal ...

The Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC today rejected the application for registration by the African Peoples Congress, a proxy group being sponsored by the ruling PDP to deny merging opposition mega party, All Progressives Congress. The rejection of their application for registration as a political party was conveyed to the group in a letter letter by INEC secretary, Abdullahi Kaugama today. T ...

A December 17th,2012 petition by the chairmen of 27 local government areas of Imo state under the  aegis of Association of Local Governments of Nigeria, ALGON has not only set the Nigerian anti-graft police, the EFCC against the state governor, Ethelbert Anayo Rochas Okorocha but iReports-ng.com can authoritatively report that the nation's Independent Corrupt Practices and Other Related Offences Commission, ...

There is panic in the Nigerian presidential villa, Abuja over a secret document prepared by a group of senior Army officers detailing the crisis rocking the Nigeria Army over recruitments and promotion exercises being carried out by the Chief of Army Staff, Lt General Azubuike Ihejirika among other issues. The officers operating under the name "Group for the Salvation of the Nigerian Army and the Motherland ...

The crisis rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) got worse again today with the move by the sacked National Secretary of the party, Prince Olagunsoye Oyinlola to get a Federal High court in Abuja to grant him seven orders that will ultimately cripple the embattled party. Oyinlola, a former governor of Osun state is the first major casualty in the power struggle between former President Olusegun ...

Had President Goodluck Jonathan run a security check on his newly appointed senior special assistant on public affairs, Dr Doyin Okupe, he would probably not have offered him a position in his government. Why? iReports-ng.com has just gathered that Okupe who has now been labelled as an attack dog in the public sphere is enmeshed in a multi-million naira contract fraud over which he has been under investigat ...