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Supplement to Official Gazette

THE CENTRAL-EA TERN STATE (CHANGE OF NAME~ DECREE 1970 Decree No. 25 THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees , s follows: 1.-(1) The Central Commandment. State shall henceforth be known and Change o eferred to as East-Central (2) Accordingly (a) there shall be subs ituted for the reference to "Central-Eastern" in section 3 of the Consti 'on of the Federation 1963 (as amended by the States (Creation and Tr itional Provisions) Decree 1967 and the States (Creation and Transitio al Provisions) (Amendment) Decree 1967) a reference to "East-Centr l" ; and (b) any reference in aJ . other enact…