Poetic License was like a dream seeker’s expression when we were in the university. The fact that a writer could be at liberty to use words freely and loosely and also actually ascribe meanings to them, was something totally new and tantalizingly inviting to the creative writing world which already had a lineup of patriarchs and matriarchs […]

Usually this headline provides cover for a certain segment of the society whose conditions are so blighted that even the festivities of Christmas and End-of-Year also exclude them. They live in the society but are more in the fringes, sheltered by the statistics of about 232 million people in the land but grossly under-provided for. They hardly […]

When they look at the weariness of life around them, my people would always say, no condition is permanent. Meaning that the fellow struggling for the crumbs from the master’s table can become the master in no time by dint of hard work or with a destined swing of metamorphosis. Master playwright, Ola Rotimi, captured it […]

I am obviously excited that the Nigerian government is going to build 4,000 telecom towers in order to boost the capacity of the nation’s telecommunications backbone. A happy Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, informed, last week, that it was one of the decisions taken at the Federal Executive Council, FEC, meeting.  Good reasons, […]

There is no doubt that cost of connectivity and access to connectivity will remain a valid concern until there is noticeable improvement that guarantees inclusivity for remote domains and for all classes of people.  This is what the International Telecommunications Union, ITU, works for and it also remains the preoccupation of jurisdictional regulators like the Nigerian […]