From Abuja, ATU makes Ubuntu call, by Okoh Aihe
For the policymakers, regulators and industry leaders who gathered in Abuja last week for the Seventh Ordinary Session of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Conference of Plenipotentiaries, the message was clear: the need for deeper collaboration, strengthening of relationships and sharing of peer experiences in order to give the continent a deserved place in the global […]
Twitter returns with a message
By Okoh Aihe The Nigerian government was effusive last week as it announced lifting the ban which it placed on Twitter since June 4, 2021. Like a flash, the news trended globally, with local and international media organisations feasting on the statement from government, to the effect that the action was taken after the microblogging […]
For technology, the men who saw tomorrow and their dream
By Okoh Aihe For nearly two years the global digital ecosystem has altered drastically. Social relationship has taken a tumble, leaving solitude and individualism as necessary evils to accommodate. Education services delivering is oscillating between online and in-person, a nuanced hybrid that puts so much pressure on digital tools and network build-out. Businesses are searching […]
A plea for understanding in Zamfara tech shutdown
I begin this material with a solicitation that you join me in prayers for a dear friend, Ahmed Abudulkadir, who was kidnapped on Monday along with his daughter in Bakori, near Funtua in Katsina State. Ahmed is a nice fellow, a genuine go-happy gentleman who has no time for misery and regrets
Ahmed Joda: They don’t come in such packs anymore
By Okoh Aihe WHEN Ahmed Joda was a super permanent secretary in the General Yakubu Gown regime, I was still in the primary school in the years that Nigeria lost its innocence to the Civil War. Years later, when I had the rare opportunity to work at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, after graduating from the […]
Technology persecution and the pursuit of scurrilities
By Okoh Aihe I SIT in front of the television these days and I’m muttering to myself; I am probably one of the many people in Nigeria not thinking right. Our world is esoterica. We perhaps shout fire where there is even no tiny smoke around or run for cover when there is tranquil all […]
