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  • Lagos senator, Solomon Adeola bags national honours

    Lagos senator, Solomon Adeola bags national honours

    Sen. Solomon Adeola (APC- Lagos) and Chairman, Senate Committee on Finance, has been honoured with the award of Commander of the Order of Niger(CON) by the Federal Government.

    Chief Kayode Odunaro, his Media Adviser, said this in a statement in Abuja on Wednesday saying that the letter conveying the award with Ref. No. FMSDIGA/NHA/001/T/85 was dated Sept 16.

    According to Odunaro, the letter was signed by Sen. George Akume, the Minister for Special Duties and Inter-Governmental Affairs.

    He said ceremony for conferment of the award was scheduled for Oct 11.

    Adeola is a Fellow, Institute of Chartered Accountants of Nigeria, fellow of the Chartered Institute of Taxation and graduate of Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro.

    Adeola, who has been a parliamentarian for over 19 years, was a two- term state legislator, one term member of the House of Representatives and currently in the 9th Senate.

  • APC:Lagos senator Yayi defeats incumbent to win senatorial ticket in Ogun State

    A senator representing Lagos West at the red chamber of the National Assembly Solomon Adeola has won his re-election bid in at the All Progressive Congress (APC)  senatorial primary election in  Ogun State.

    Adeola popularly referred to as Yayi   vied for the ticket of Ogun West Senatorial District and polled a total votes of 294 to defeat his closest rival the incumbent Senator representing Ogun West, Tolu Odebiyi, who reportedly scored zero votes in the primary election.

    It was gathered  that other aspirants in the race, Gboyega Isiaka and Abiodun Akinlade withdrew from the race after they settled for the House of Representatives tickets despite not obtaining a form seeking to go to the green chamber.

    At the election held at the Orona Hall, in Ilaro, Odebiyi had earlier said he was the only candidate in the contest, a comment many are yet to understand.

    The election was conducted by the APC electoral committee led by Dr Dapo Odukoya.

    Solomon Olamilekan Adeola, also known by the alias Yayi, is a Nigerian politician serving as the Senator from Lagos West. From 2011 to 2015, he was the Chairman of House of Representatives Committee on Public Accounts. He is also a chartered accountant, and a member of the Association of Accounting Technicians.

  • Tinubu’s godson, Sen. Adeola threatens to join kinsmen in self defence against Fulani herdsmen

    Tinubu’s godson, Sen. Adeola threatens to join kinsmen in self defence against Fulani herdsmen

    Senator Solomon Adeola (APC-Lagos West), who is one of the many godsons of national leader of All Progressives Congress (APC) Bola Tinubuhas threatened to join his kinsmen in self defence.

    The Senator, who made the threat in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said his action in that direction is being fuelled by the inaction of both the Federal and Ogun State Governments to stop incessant attacks of communities in Yewaland by Fulani herdsmen.

    Adeola, in the statement signed by his Special Adviser on Media, Kayode Odunaro, said the latest of such attacks were the ones brazenly carried out in Yewa North, Imeko, Afon, Ipokia and Yewa South Local Government Areas two weeks ago, occasioning several deaths and destruction of property without the authorities stemming the tide.

    He said: “Let it be stated that as a representative of the people sworn to uphold the constitution and the laws of the land including the right to self defence, I will not hesitate to join my people in the defence of their rights to life, property and peaceful coexistence with others at the back of seeming failure of duly constituted authorities to defend such fundamental rights against anyone or forces.”

    Adeola declared further in the statement that having waited in vain for over two weeks for government’s positive action against what are clearly criminal acts of arson and murders, he is now calling on the Federal Government and the Ogun State Government to rise up to their constitutional obligations of protecting the lives and properties of all Nigerians, particularly the peace loving people of Yewaland in Ogun State.

    According to him: “Attacks occasioning several deaths and destruction of properties of law abiding Nigerians in several communities in Yewaland can no longer be glossed over.”

    Relevant authorities, he added, must rise up to the challenge, failure of which may make people in the affected communities to resort to self help.

    He said: “I recalled that at various occasions on the floor of the Senate I contributed to debates on the deteriorating security situation in different parts of the country and was always agitating for restructuring of the security architecture of the country.

    “I made a similar contribution to a Senate wide motion on general security only last week. Now something specific must be done urgently to stop the arson and killings in Yewaland by relevant authorities and security agencies.”

    Adeola noted that he is aware that the State Government set up a special committee on the recent ugly situation in Yewaland and elsewhere in the state, but stressed that the body needed to urgently turn in a workable report/solution to the Government to stem the spate of arson and killing against people in Yewaland.

  • Data price hike: Senate meets NCC, Telcos

    Data price hike: Senate meets NCC, Telcos

    Following the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) u-turn on data tariff increase, the Nigerian Senate committee on communications on Tuesday met with the telecommunications regulatory body and major telecommunications company in Nigeria to determine the correct pricing for data.

    It could be recalled that telecom operators announced intention signalled by the NCC to increase data price effective December 1, which was halted by the Nigerian Senate with a mandate on the Senate committee on communications to investigate the proposed hike in data tariff.

    While the NCC had since made the u-turn without implementing the increase, and the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, has said the Federal Government (FG) of Nigeria never authorized NCC to hike data tariffs, indications from the investigative meeting held yesterday, both the NCC and the telecoms operators are bent-on on hiking data price.

    Speaking at the meeting, the Vice Chairman of the Committee, Senator Solomon Adeola, relayed the Senate’s concern over the proposed data price increase. Senator Adeola said that Nigerians were united in their opposition that the proposed increase in the price of data should be stopped. According to the senator, the hike in data price was ill-advised especially with the biting economic situation in the country.

    The Executive Vice Chairman of NCC, Mr Umar Danbatta, while addressing the committee, said that the intervention of the NCC was not designed to rip-off the consumers. Danbatta explained that if cheap prices were introduced, they may end up undermining the telecom service operators.

    According to Danbatta, the need to avert crisis in the telecom industry informed the introduction of the interim price floor for data services – ₦0.90k per megabyte.

    “We wanted to protect the Nigerian consumer from unhealthy price war in what may lead to a monopoly that may lead us to the days of NITEL,” Danbatta said.

    “We did not increase any price but merely provided a regulatory standard to protect small telecom operators,” he added.

    In the defence of the NCC, Danbatta said that there were some telecom operators that lacked the capacity to compete with the big operators in the field. Therefore, the ₦0.90k price floor for data was a benchmark below which no operator could sell.

    The Communications Minister at the meeting said that in reality the telecom service providers were operating under unfriendly business environment including lack of electricity and increasing security challenges.

    “This is one area that I believe that we all must face the reality. The government in its wisdom, and I am happy the National Assembly, promulgated the National Communications Act which required that there be established an NCC.

    “If you look at the NCC law, it is positioned to reflect experiences, expertise and all of that and I want to believe that there must not be too many interventions in the activities of the NCC,” Shittu said.

    Adebayo Shittu while reflecting on the data hike pointed out that the NCC was deficient at properly communicating the new price floor to the public. He, however, appealed to the Senate to assist in the area of holding the balance between the interest of the operators and the interest of the Nigerian masses.

    The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Etisalat, Matthew Willsher, while speaking to the Senate Committee said that the absence of a price floor is a major problem, adding that the absence of a data price floor led to the dramatic decline in data pricing.

    Ferdinand Moolman, CEO of MTN, who was also in attendance spoke about the impact of inflation on the sector. Mr Moolman asked that the NCC does a proper cost and price analysis which will factor in the current inflation in the country.

    Moolman said, “All of us aware that inflation is going up to 17 to 18 per cent, we have experienced price increase in all other sectors yet we have seen price drop in the telecoms sector in the last two or three years and you have heard this said by a number of speakers”.

    Addressing the committee’s concerns on the data price hike, Danbatta explained that the NCC does not set prices but provide regulatory safe guides.

    Danbatta made it clear to the Senate Committee that the NCC would conduct an extensive scientific research to determine the correct pricing for data that would be acceptable to Nigerians.