Once upon a time, there was an Access Gap Map prepared by the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF. The map showed details of remote sites in the country or locations in not-too-distant environments where telecommunications services were not available. The Nigerian Communications Act, NCA, 2003 recognises these areas or groups in Section 113 as unserved, underserved […]

A simmering broadcast news recently has been the story of Multichoice Nigeria jacking up subscription rates on its various packages in order to remain in business in Nigeria. Coming on the heels of other similar developments like the 50 percent hike in telecoms tariff, and the stratospheric increase in electricity tariffs last year, Nigerians were outraged, […]

The mobile industry will post nearly $11 trillion in economic value by 2030 or 8.4 percent of GDP. Last year, 2024, mobile technology and services generated 5.8 percent of global GDP, which is equivalent to $6.5 trillion of economic value. This was part of the highlights of the annual Mobile Economy Report 2025 launched by the […]

As the global community gathers at the Mobile World Congress, MWC25, in Barcelona, from March 3 – 6,  2025, with the theme: “Converge. Connect. Create”, it will be interesting to find out how well the mobile industry is doing at home, I mean in Nigeria, and whether we are close to having any serious relationship with […]

One by one, the elders are taking a leave of us, perhaps tired of this fetid  putrescence of a noxious earthly abode, to attend a big conference which seems to be happening in heaven, according to a senior colleague with an acerbic sense of humour. The conference is for good people only, he intoned. Just take […]

It was good that Nigeria’s voice was heard at the AI Summit in Paris, France, even if peripherally. It was heard, nothing can subtract from that. Receiving the Google Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai,  who led a team to visit him, President Bola Ahmed TInubu, used the opportunity to tell  the world that Nigeria was ready […]

The responses to the tariff adjustment for telecom operators on January 20, 2025, by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), clearly demonstrate that Nigerians are not a conquered people yet. That in spite of how the socio-economic conditions have impacted them harshly to endure subhuman living, they can still find their voices from the ruins of such chaotic […]

Please, don’t let the above question trouble you. It’s my response to the SKillUp Imo documentary which I watched recently. It was so totally unexpected but so delightfully nourishing at the end that I couldn’t have asked for anything better to see on television that very day. AIT gave me the full dose of SkillUp […]

New telecom tariffs are here, and this is official. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said Monday night that it has granted a 50 percent tariff adjustment to the industry operators for industry sustenance and for continuing service delivery. This is the first raise since 2013. Although the operators had mounted a sustained campaign, demanding for […]

I am an unrepentant apostle of telecom tariff hike. Some guys will nearly put my head on a chopping board for this. How? In an environment that is challenged with so many people sliding into multidimensional poverty daily, with staple food prices out of the reach of workers whose minimum wage of N70, 000 has hardly been […]