It was not a moment of reminiscences or retrospection. Not even a recall. Just a normal telephone call. Two women were chatting away, with the one sitting not far away from me not really mindful whether anybody heard or not. It was her business; not another man’s business.  But you know, people can really make calls, […]

Venerated playwright, Professor Femi Osofisan, once said in one of his books, there is safety in numbers. This is very true of human beings who would always find solace and security with each other but equally more so in subscription business where the subscriber base remains very vital in terms of returns on investment. A good […]

The slash-and-burn agriculture which forms a major plank of shifting cultivation used to announce the coming of a new planting season. As children we didn’t like the clearing part of it but the burning aspect was the big deal. No child my age really loved to stay under a thick bush at the time with a […]

Our elders certainly have a well of wisdom. When they say the young shall grow, they obviously know what they are talking about. That, it is the child whose growing up makes life a continuum and stretches it into eternity. It is the child’s achievement tomorrow that accounts for the future. The young really shall grow. […]

There was the news the other day that MTN Nigeria is partnering the Lagos State Government to redevelop the Obalende under-bridge into a modern transport hub to be known as Y’ELLO Bus Park. Transformation would be the right word for a presently degraded environment to wear new colours and bring a new sheen to that part […]

The telecommunications industry opened with a bang in early 2000 after a snail-walk in the previous years of political uncertainties and economic decisions that were at best tentative. The industry was not only deregulated but phone ownership was so democratised that the development mocked previous assertions that telephones were for the rich. It was the birth […]

The National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, has a lot of stuff in its basket at the moment. And there really will be much more as politics heats up. The other day, the Niger State Governor, Muhammed Umaru Bago, woke up one morning, perhaps on a hyperactive mode, and shut down a radio station, Badeggi Radio FM 90.1. […]

Just a look at the story, a flash went off in my head. At this age one shouldn’t engage in protest writings or spew out materials that hover on malcontent or, in the extreme, frustration. Or are my thoughts simply just cyclical? I have had to review my writings in the past few years and I […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, last week, presented the Nigeria Spectrum Roadmap 2026 – 2030 to industry stakeholders. Only the initiates would ever understand why that was ever necessary. Spectrum is not a mere telecoms consumable. It is much more than that.  Spectrum provides the oxygen for the telecoms industry to function. Without spectrum the industry […]

The broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, is planning a review of the sixth edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, and has sent out a notice to various stakeholders, asking them to ‘speak now’ in order to ‘help shape the new Nigeria Broadcasting Code.’ One of the final lines is particularly very interesting. ‘Let us […]