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A delegate to the National Conference and Chairman of the committee that laid the framework, Senator Femi Okurounmu, has declared that Nigeria’s breakup is inevitable. While giving his reasons, the former lawmaker said it is not compulsory that Nigeria will remain as one nation, noting that the northern region has been oppressing other regions since independence. Reacting to a recent statement credited to the British High Commissioner to Nigeria where he was quoted as saying that his country will not allow Nigeria to tear apart, Senator Okorounmu said that the Britain is the major problem of Nigeria. According to him, Nigerians are now fed up with the British-forced marriage of different entities in the country. He told Sun, “It is possible for Nigeria to break up, we can’t continue this way and expect people to remain silent. As long as we don’t have equity, fairness and justice in the polity, if Nigeria wants to break, let it be so. “Forget whatever the British High Commissi...

Biafra war destroyed Nigerian civil service system – ObasekiBy John Owen Nwachukwu on April 1, 2017 The Edo State Governor, Godwin Obaseki, yesterday lamented that the outbreak of the civil war in 1967 disrupted the well-organized civil service system put in place by Britain. The Governor charged civil servants in the state to key into the Integrated Financial Information System which will guarantee Electronic governance in all Ministries in the state. While commending his predecessor, Adams Oshiomhole, whom he described as a courageous lion, for being the first governor to introduce the use of technology called the “oracle software in the payment system in the civil service”, Obaseki said his administration had provided one thousand computers and will provide internet facilities in all the offices so that every government dealings will be online. Obaseki was speaking to Permanent Secretaries and Directors in the state civil service yesterday. He said, “What we are doing is...

Each year minimum wage review is mentioned, little do people know that state government staff are solely left out. The ineptitude of the federal government, thus makes it more slavery for state workers and state public servants have all downed in their minds that peanuts as a monthly pay is their constitutional right since their counterparts in the federal level are the only Nigerian recognised workers. SAD. What has actually happened to Jerome Udorji report? Federal and state staff live in the same society or are former in heaven on earth and later in hell on earth? SAD State Governors, from the reports gathered in the field are the living devils killing Nigeria as a nation. For example, at federal level; a level 08 civil servants receives over seventy thousand naira (N70,000+) for monthly salary outside other benefits , whereas a counterpart in the states receives below fourty thousand naira every month and likely not attending a training for development, these two, pay house r...