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Supplement to Official Gazette

BIGHT OF BONNY DECREE 1975 Decree No. 4 (17th January 1975] THE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows :--!,. 1. The bight on the south-eastern coast of Nigeria hitherto known as the Bight of Biafra shall from henceforth and for all purposes be known as the Bight of Bonny, and all reference.:; to the Bight of Biafra in any law however made having effect in Nigeria or in any instrument, map or document whatsoever shall be construed as references to the Bight of Bonny. 2. This Decree may be cited as the Bight of Bonny Decree 1975. MADE at Lagos this 17th day of January 1975. GENER…