Broadcasting has enjoyed some enormous coverage lately. Can you imagine that tweak or little speck of irony! The broadcast media itself enjoying the limelight in what may qualify as inversion of service delivery.  From nowhere, a state governor generated a needless controversy by reclining on his imperial powers to order the closure of one of the […]

The telecom sector once very predictable in performance and visibility, and even in functionality and relevance, has suddenly become a sector needing urgent attention, as it attracts responses and reactions of all shades. It is not a good place to be at all.  Mixed reactions will be too much of a beautiful phrase to describe an […]

The Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, gets a Board at last. That is good news. There have been tons of materials written on the need for President Bola Ahmed Tinubu to set up a Board for the regulatory agency which has its functions cast in the Act of the Commission to initiate policies that can shape the […]

When the article, ‘Don’t let 9Mobile die’, was published in February 2022, the service provider had nearly 13 million lines. It was struggling for life and had so many people wishing it well. It had commitments it could hardly meet and some of us thought it was better for relevant stakeholders to work for its survival […]

There is a side of the politician that we don’t readily credit, to our own disadvantage. The average politician believes he is God and everything moves at his word. He looks at the ordinary fella with imperial arrogance and expects servile response to even his flatulence. He promotes arrogance and ignorance over knowledge. He takes his […]