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 ...

Today our democracy was tested and proven. Democracy is about participation. The aim of democratic governance is for everyone to partake in winning. Today the governors have spoken with one voice reaffirming our faith in democratic governance as the hope of Nigeria’s future. I must thank my colleagues for their tenacity and determination to ensure the unity of the forum but more importantly of our nation. W ...

The battle for 2015 presidential election appears to be getting clearer with the defeat of President Goodluck Jonathan's camp in the keenly contested Nigerian Governors Forum chairmanship seat which was today won by the Rivers state governor, Rotimi Amaechi. Amaechi who has come under various assaults from the federal government over his suspected opposition to Jonathan's 2015 re-election bid emerged winner ...

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 ...

The House of Representatives which last week conducted a public hearing over the grounding of a Bombardier B700 Global Express jet owned by the Rivers state government has compiled a report of its findings in which it faulted the Ministry of Aviation and the Nigerian Civil Aviation Authority, NCAA in the handling of the dispute. The federal lawmakers in the report also demanded the prosecution of Caverton H ...

 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 ...