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Chidi Onumah: Nigeria is Teetering on The Brink of Disaster, journalist Chidi Onumah,  and coordinator, Africa Centre for Media & Information Literacy warns. Chidi will present his third book, ‘We Are All Biafrans’ in Abuja on 31 May. In this interview with AYORINDE OLUOKUN , Onumah gives an insight into the book which he said focuses on the crises of nationhood in Nigeria and the need to urgently restructure the country in line with true practice of federalism to avoid a looming catastrophe.  We Are All Biafrans is your third book, what is the motivation for it and how is it different from the two you have written earlier? The reason is the same, but a little bit more. I have always focused on the structure of Nigeria, our federalism- my argument for many years have been that Nigeria is a very flawed national, structurally. And that many, if not all of the problems that confront us emanate from the flawed nature of our federalism. So, this is just one more in...

David Cameron, UK Prime Minister By Eseoghene Al-Faruq Ohwojeheri The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom has been caught on camera making reference to Nigeria as one of the two most corrupt countries in the world among other derogatory statements. He made the statement while speaking with the Queen of England, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, and Commons Speaker John Bercow. As expected, many, including a UK Government spokesman, have defended this statement using excuses including the fact that President Buhari described a situation in Nigeria where corruption became a way of life. But the truth is the world is missing some points as regard this issue and this is not surprising. Take a look at some points if you are one of those who do not consider Africans too inferior to get the most basic of respect: Mockery is not same as a Statement of Fact Let’s assume for a second that all Cameron said of Nigeria is true. He was not just saying it, he was mocking the count...

efcc logo Popular Lagos-based lawyer, Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa, has been arrested by the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission for an alleged N61m scam. The EFCC announced on its official Facebook page that Adegboruwa allegedly conspired with some persons to lease a property in the Lekki area of Lagos State. The property in question, according to the anti-graft agency, is a subject of an Interim Forfeiture Order by a Lagos State High Court. According to the statement which read in part, “Lagos lawyer, Adegboruwa, has been arrested by operatives of the EFCC for dealing in a property which is a subject of an Interim Forfeiture Order by a Lagos State High Court without due authorisation. “He allegedly conspired with some other persons to lease the property situated at House 105 Nicon Town Estate, Lekki Lagos, to one Shelf Drilling Nigeria Limited, in the sum of N61, 631,944.65. The said money was credited to his Zenith Bank’s account, from where he made disbursements. The matter will...

Simon Lalong, Plateau State Governor The Plateau Government on Tuesday said it generated N2.06 billion as revenue in the first quarter of the year. Mr Dashe Arlat, the Acting Chairman, Plateau State Internal Revenue Service (PSIRS), disclosed this in an interview with NAN in Jos. Arlat described the revenue collected within the period as “very encouraging’’ compared with the N1.84 billion realised in the corresponding period in 2015. “From the amount so far realised this first quarter of the year, it is glaring that we have improved with our revenue generation having surpassed that of last year with N219, 506, 232. “In fact, by what we just realised, it is a clear indication that we shall definitely meet our target of N13 billion for this year; this is because we have not yet included our arrears of tax liabilities of about N5 billion,” he said. Analysing the collection for the period under review, the chairman disclosed that the amount generated was made up of N350, 720, 319 P...

Health Minister, Prof. Isaac Adewole Bauchi Police Command on Tuesday said it had arrested four suspects for being in possession of stolen treated mosquitoes nets. DSP Haruna Mohammed, the Spokesman for the command, made this known in a statement in Bauchi. Mohammed named one Alhaji Modu, 32, of Lawan Bukar Ward and Ibrahim Ali, 30, of Shehuri North, all in Maiduguri town in Borno State as principal suspects arrested. He said the suspects were arrested by a combined detachment of men from Bauchi State Police command and Military men from the 33 Artillery Brigade, Bauchi. Mohammed said that the suspects were arrested along Azare to Kano road in Bauchi State with 42 bags of treated mosquito nets donated by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He said that the nets were meant for distribution to members of the public for roll back malaria campaign in Borno State. The spokesman said that preliminary investigations led to the arrest of one Mohammed Abubaka...

Nigeria Police logo The Rivers State Police Command on Tuesday said that it has commenced the investigation into the killing of two security guards at the State High Court premises. DSP Ahmad Muhammad, the Police Public Relations Officer in the command, who spoke with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Port Harcourt, confirmed that the guards were killed on Monday night by assailants. Speaking, he said, “When we got the information, our men stormed the scene and discovered that the assailants had fled. But from our initial analysis, it appeared the security men were sleeping when they were attacked. From all indications, the assailants used hard objects to hit them on the head.” Muhammad added that detectives from the command have commenced with the investigation to fish out the killers.

Dr Oluranti Adebule, Lagos State deputy governor The Screening test for admission of Primary Six pupils into the Lagos State Model Colleges and Upgraded Junior Secondary Schools for the 2016/2017 academic session will hold on Saturday, 14th May, 2016 between 8am and 2pm. In a release on Monday, the Lagos State Examinations Board noted that the test will be conducted in two versions, Computer Based Test (CBT) and Pencil/Paper Test. Candidates who opted for the CBT will take their examinations at the Information Communication and Technology (ICT) Centre, Lagos State Examinations Board, Iyana Ipaja, while those for the Pencil/Paper Test will have their examinations at the 28 designated centres across the State. It explained further that a total of 10,200 candidates will sit for the examinations of which 54 candidates opted for the Computer Based Test (CBT) while 10,146 candidates are expected to sit for the Pencil Paper Test (PPT) at designated centres nearer to their homes. Success...