Saving DSO from needless controversies, by Okoh Aihe
Writing about the fresh aspirations of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) and FreeTV being prepped for launch on June 17, 2026, we declared our support for the regulator in choosing the satellite option but warned that the process needs to be more transparent and inclusive. Before the afternoon of the very […]
Chico Ejiro: One last journey by a content creator
By Okoh Aihe THERE was one appellation I could never call him, even grudgingly, Mr. Prolific. But that never adulterated my respect for him. Mr. Chico Ejiro who exited the stage on Christmas day morning was a movie maker of note, a guy with a mission which, as it has turned out now, had little […]
For communications, another superfluous directive
By Okoh Aihe HOW very ludicrous! Referring to the happenings in the telecommunications industry on Monday morning, a friend drew my attention to Our Husband Has Gone Mad Again, a play written by Prof. Ola Rotimi of blessed memory. It is not just that the husband is mad but that he had been mad before […]
Telecoms and security of lives: Time for desperate measures
By Okoh Aihe ONCE we got into Okene in Kogi State, the young man behind me, sitting in the back of the bus who had engaged his colleagues in animated discussions all along, tried to find out our location bearing. When told Okene, he became a psychotic wreck, flew into kindergarten gibberish and very unintelligible […]
For broadcasting, truth troubled by the times
By Okoh Aihe The snake is not a likeable creep. Especially if you have had a brush with its venomous danger as I have, twice in my life and nearly got finished off at the second encounter, you have no reason to like the snake at all, and once you smell the danger from a […]
For communications, a little history and troubling future
By Okoh Aihe I have a friend, a very funny guy, but he is a repository of records. Dates are at the tip of his fingers and he reels them out to maximum effect. Sometimes I look at him and I try to convince myself that if a majority of us were this good with dates […]
Technology will punish you
By Okoh Aihe The title of this piece shouldn’t be insulting. It’s obviously not an invective because the fellow I am taking a ride in his Uber car has no reason to be rude to me. Quite a jolly good fellow, he was only trying to explain things to me, taking it that I am […]
Technology as the devil in national discourse
By Okoh Aihe The last few weeks have conspired malevolently to create a State of Anomy in our land, apologies to Prof Wole Soyinka, whose post-colonial and civil war experience, in 1973, influenced the title of one of the two novels of the Nobel Laureate. A well-coordinated movement and demonstration by some Nigerian youths simply […]
