I have had the good fortune of working with Ernest Ndukwe, an engineer, at a very significant moment in my life when history was also being made for our dear nation, Nigeria. The country had been so starved of telecom development that it was assumed a miracle for any such thing to happen in our clime. […]

In a world where distances to jurisdictions can be measured with a flip of the button, happenings between pay-TV operator, MultiChoice and the government of Ghana was keenly followed in Nigeria. In a quirk coincidence, the broadcaster was also having a load of problems in Nigeria and quite a number of people patiently monitored the Ghanaian […]

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 […]