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 […]

On a day that Dr Raymond Dokpesi should have been 73 penultimate week, he wasn’t around because he had gone on a long trip. But his friends still came in his absence to speak some kind words as befitting reminiscences for the life of a good man whose memory should be kept alive in perpetuity. In […]

SOME folks who read this syndicated column every Wednesday have asked me at one point or the other: what beef do you have with the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC? Not any, I would always say, although beef is not the best source of protein for a senior citizen. So, beefing can be an invitation to trouble.  […]

ON this very day, I want to acknowledge with utmost respect that there could be so many items on President Bola Tinubu’s plate; so I do not, by any means, want to add anything to that mix which could give even an elephant a headache. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, they say. Looking […]

LET me serve you this whiff of good news in case it had sped by unrecognised. Dr Aminu Maida, Executive Vice Chairman, EVC, of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, declared in Lagos, last week, that the SIM-NIN Linkage Policy, which enjoyed a convoluted tenure, has formally been completed. With that declaration, it means every phone number […]

I was going through some of my old writings last week and I chanced on a few of them focused on 5G technology. I was still nearly overwhelmed by the great expectations, the amount of euphoria and excitement that heralded the coming of the technology to our nation. It was almost attributed as a silver bullet […]

THE Nigerian Television Authority, NTA, got its fair share of the wave of federal appointments as Mr Bayo Onanuga, the Adviser to the President on Information and Strategy, last Friday, announced the appointment of seven Executive Directors. The announcement led me down the path of nostalgia, a wishful past when NTA was the king of broadcasting […]

THE Stakeholders Consultative Forum on Emerging Technologies which held in Lagos on September 19, 2024, as a precursor to the coming of WIFI 6, has animated industry discussions on the beautiful shape of things to come. It is a new world out there and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, with necessary approvals from the International Telecommunications […]