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 ...

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 ...