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 ...

For the second time in a week, the Nigeria Police today detained two journalists with the Abuja based Leadership newspapers. The detained journalists Messrs Tony Amokeodo and Chibuzo Ukaibe were among the four arrested last week and detained by the police in Abuja over a report on a purported presidential directive to deal with key opposition party leaders. They were later granted bail after public outcry a ...

Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP's Board of Trustees, Chief Tony Anenih today vowed that the party will do what it knows how to do best, that is rigging elections, to will in the 2015 polls across the country. Anenih with a reputation as the architect of the ruling party's rigging plans declared this today after a meeting with former President Olusegun Obasanjo at his Hill Top residence in Abeo ...

National Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur today cried out that he is under pressure from President Goodluck Jonathan to win elections in at least 32 states for the ruling party during the 2015 elections in which the president intends to participate as presidential candidate. 76 year old Tukur who just returned from medical treatment in London after the crises in the party took ...

Our attention has been drawn to a statement by the Leadership Newspaper  titled “Statement on the Arrest and Detention of LEADERSHIP journalists” (April 10), the latest episode in the matters arising from the same newspaper’s publication of an alleged “Presidential Directive” which we have had cause to disavow because the basis of the story proved to have been a dubious ‘bromide’ containing nothing more tha ...

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 multi-faceted crises rocking the ruling Peoples Democratic Party, PDP is already taking its toll on the health of the 78 year old national chairman of the party, Alhaji Bamanga Tukur. As a result, Tukur whose leadership of the party has been bugged by stiff opposition from the majority of governors elected on the platform of the party has as a resulted escaped to London where he is now seeking medical a ...