Author: Olabanji Ayoola

Lagos free Wi-Fi project struggles Operators to concentrate more services in urban cities Costs of Smartphones, laptops pose barrier to affordability, access Despite the over $70 billion (N32.9 trillion) worth of investments that have gone into Nigeria’s telecoms sector, availability of Public Internet Access is still a far cry. These investments comprise those from foreign […]

Nigeria’s leading opposition party, Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has said that officials of the Presidency and the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, should be held responsible for the festering violence, killings and terrorism in the country. It said the confession by the President Muhammadu Buhari administration that the nation, under its watch, is at the […]

The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) has told a Federal High Court in Abuja that it had taken steps to execute its summons for the appearance of the fleeing ex-Minister of Petroleum Resources, Diezani Alison-Madueke. EFCC’s lawyer, Farouk Abdullah, told the court yesterday at the mention of a charge the commission filed against Mrs. […]

Three members of the Indigenous People of Biafra arrested by the police for allegedly detonating explosives in Governor Nyesom Wike’s father’s church in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, have confessed that they carried out the attack to get recognition in the proscribed group. The suspects spoke while being paraded before journalists by the state Commissioner of […]

Aregbesola, Oyetola A former interim National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress, Chief Bisi Akande, and the former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, on Thursday met Osun State Governor, Adegboyega Oyetola, and his predecessor, Rauf Aregbesola, behind closed doors. The meeting, which commenced around noon at the Ila Orangun country home of Akande, […]

Police Inspector-General, Mohammed Adamu, has disowned the suit challenging the legality of the states’ judicial panels of inquiry investigating allegations against officers of the defunct Special Anti-Robbery Squad. He directed an immediate investigation into the lawsuit and the alleged role of the Force Legal Section, including its head, CP Tuesday Assayomo. The IG also expressed […]

IGP orders investigation of suit Nigeria Police Force, yesterday, approached the Federal High Court in Abuja asking it to stop judicial panels of inquiry probing into alleged police brutality. The move has been, however, severely criticised by a rights group, Human Rights Writers Association of Nigeria (HURIWA). The judicial panels of inquiry were set up […]

The House of Representatives on Thursday directed the Inspector General of Police (IGP), Mohammed Adamu, to carry out an aggressive investigation into this gruesome murder of the Olufon of Ifon in Ose local government of Ondo State, Oba Isreal Adegoke Adeusi by unknown gunmen. The House also stressed the need to deploy more police personnel […]