Author: Olabanji Ayoola

• North under siege, they cry out• Insist service chiefs must go Coalition of Northern Elders for Peace and Development (CNEPD) has cried out in alarm that the northern part of the country is under siege by Boko Haram, bandits and kidnappers, whose criminal activities have grounded educational, economic and socio-political activities in the region. […]

In this file photo taken on January 22, 2017, US President Donald Trump (L) congratulates Senior Counselor to the President, Stephen Bannon during the swearing-in of senior staff in the East Room of the White House in Washington, DC. (Photo by Mandel Ngan / AFP) President Donald Trump has decided to pardon his influential former […]

United Nigeria, Green Africa, Cally Air scale hurdles Experts canvass strategy, merger, stronger carriers Barring a major shift in schedule, at least three new airlines will come up stream by mid-year, adding to the number of domestic carriers operating on both the local and regional routes. It was learnt at the weekend that the trio […]

Pope Francis has appointed the Bishop of Sokoto Catholic Diocese, Dr. Matthew Kukah, into the Dicastery for the Promotion of Human Integral Development. The appointment was contained in a letter signed by the Prefect of the Dicastery, His Eminence, Peter Cardinal Turkson, dated December 11, 2020. The Dicastery is a department of the Roman Curia, […]

Aviation stakeholders have expressed worry over the quality of aviation fuel airlines use locally, especially its exposure to contaminants within the supply chain. The concern is connected with recent findings that linked some air crashes and contaminated fuel. Again, some of the recommendations that emerged from the accident investigations have not been implemented. Meeting recently […]

The Association of Licensed Telecoms Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) has projected that except there are interventions, new sets of challenges await the Infrastructure Companies (InfraCos). Already, telecoms operators continue to battle numerous challenges including arbitrary charges, especially from state governments, Right of Way (RoW) issues, vandalism, theft, erratic electricity supply, poor access to foreign exchange, […]

Minister lauds subscribers, NIMC continues verification The Federal Government has commended Nigerians for their perseverance in the ongoing National Identification Number (NIN)-Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) card enrolment, verification and linkage, which began last month. It urged subscribers not to relent as the February 9 deadline approaches. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), in a statement by […]

The Maiduguri Zonal Office of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has arraigned Aisha Alkali Wakili (aka Mama Boko Haram) for alleged fresh fraud. Wakili was arraigned on Monday before Justice Aisha Kumaliya of the Borno State High Court, sitting in Maiduguri, the state capital, on a fresh three count charge involving  criminal conspiracy and […]

Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka on Monday defended the Catholic Bishop of Sokoto Diocese, Mathew Kukah, against claims of anti-Islam bias in his Christmas Day homily. He described those reading a sinister interpretation to the message as irrational religionists and warned Nigerians not to succumb to their demands. He said religious extremists of the Christian and […]