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 […]

WRITING on the new Government’s initiative on the Digital Switchover, DSO, on August 28, 2024, we made the following observations on this column: “This has not said much about the place of the signal distributors and Set Top Box manufacturers who were encouraged to invest heavily in the DSO process and have hardly recouped some of […]

Our genre of politics demands that even good deeds/achievements should be degraded to the level of little acceptance, if there is any acceptance at all.

FROM the onset, people were not so much against the SIM-NIN Linkage policy of the Nigerian government, especially for the reasons it was introduced, for the fidelity of our electronic business  transactions, now digital economy, and for the security of lives in our nation. But people railed at the timing, which was during the COVID-19 period, […]

OUR propensity to build mountains out of very small problems has not allowed us to achieve our aspirational height. Every little problem with a simple answer is complicated, like rocket science or achieving the feat of sending somebody to the moon or the international space station where some other humans – astronauts and cosmonauts – do […]

With nearly all the economic pointers heading downwards, telecoms, which remains one of the very few products that one can hold onto, and maintain the bragging rights of being part of humanity, shouldn’t also be allowed to die just because we can’t fix our economic environment.

THE 2024 Paris Olympics Games ended on Sunday in a blaze of glory. The French gave their elevated understanding of beauty and creativity while Hollywood gave a little snippet of what awaits the world in Los Angeles in four years time. The Olympics wasn’t just about games, it was about doggedness and discipline, it was about […]

WHEN we were small children still in primary school, we would gather once a week under the big umbrella tree on the left end at the approach of the school compound to tell stories under the auspices of very strict teachers who would later turn out in life to be very good people. Those teachers, they […]

IT was my strong determination this week to write in defence of the Tinubu administration that it couldn’t be behind the large scale disconnection of mobile lines as a sure channel of ensuring that those planning demonstrations over hardship in our nation on  August 1, 2024, fail in the process as they will be unable to […]