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 […]

The tech industry promises to be very interesting this year. It will bring excitment, it will also inflict pain. Nations will go after each other and try to sabotage each other’s growth where possible. Others will expand growth and dominance and even extend it to conquest as manifest display of strength. The weaklings will lap up […]

As the year 2024 raced to an indeterminate conclusion, there was some theatre of the absurd playing out in the telecommunications industry. Tariff occupied centre stage. There was a reported tariff hike in the industry which was immediately denied by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, also reportedly.  Just before the final bell could ring on the […]

I have had the unenviable opportunity of living in two states and the Federal Capital Territory in the past three months. All the time, my phone is my most prized item because it connects me to my base and my family. It is really cool to be able to reach out and be reached at any […]

I AM not about to write an elegy for the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, yet. Afterall, the regulator of the broadcast industry is not dead although it suffered jeopardy recently. Besides, I have written quite a number of them lately, including the one for my elder brother whose health was mismanaged by a teaching hospital that […]

This is not the kind of material I want to be writing at this time but necessity has placed it upon me to do so, in case somebody finds it useful and may want to act for the good of society.  Writing technology can sometimes place the writer at that hyper level of fantasy where you […]

There has been a sustained conversation about cleaning up the governance structure of the public service in order to create institutions that function for the good, growth and well-being of the people. They say that because of the strategic relevance of the public service, getting it right at that level would put so many things to […]

FOR most of last week, Multichoice was in the news. The organisation that has dominated PayTV business in Nigeria for over two decades is facing consequential financial atrophy, having lost 243,000 subscribers across its DSTV and GOtv platforms in just six months,  from April to September this year,  as disclosed in its Interim Financial Reports.  This […]

The American elections are over and President Donald Trump won convincingly, literally blowing Kamala Harris out of the political space. The contrarians had their emotional expectations but the big boys who spent their money for Trump and the ordinary folks in the motley crowd, had their way. That is the way of politics. Some get really […]