A closer look at the Zero Rated Access Initiative, by Okoh Aihe
The NCC programme wasn’t part of my schedule last week but the insistence of a young employee drew me to the Hilton, venue of the programme, and I left very appreciative that I found my way there. Sometimes, you need to clear your schedule to do certain things. This was one of them. As I […]
How Nigeria can benefit from $11 trillion Mobile industry, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
A mobile industry in need of help, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
And Prof Adaba joins the conference in heaven, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
The world looks at the good side of AI, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
Telecom tariffs – the rot cuts deeper, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
