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Supplement to Official Gazette Extraordinary

NEWSPAPERS (PROHIBITION OF CIRCULATION) DECREE 1967 Decree No. 17 [30th May 1967] {fHE FEDERAL MILITARY GOVERNMENT hereby decrees as follows: 1.- (1) Where the Head of the Federal Military Government is satisfied that the unrestricted circulation in Nigeria of a newspaper is or may be detrimental to the interest of the Federation or of any state thereof, he may by order published in the Gazette prohibit the circulation in the Federation or in any state thereof as the case may require, of any newspaper ; and unless any other period is prescribed in the order, the prohibition shall continue for …