I am looking at two pictures of the Information and National Orientation Minister, Muhammad Idris. One is ebullient with smiles breaking all over his face as he  assured the Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (IBAN) members who visited him that the Tinubu administration would avail a single digit loan to help stabilise and grow the broadcast industry.  […]

In the evening of May 29, 2023, I found myself paying tributes to Dr Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi. “They didn’t know you and they never will,” I wrote.  The broadcast czar and unrepentant exponent had just undergone a most unexpected apotheosis and emotion was very thick in the air. He had completed his final episode of life which […]

MY friend wasn’t happy with me last week. How can you be writing technology and you allow these operators to run away with my money? But how would I be clairvoyant to know your little fights with the operators?  My friend loves gizmos and is hooked on any organisation that promises good data bundles. So he […]

THERE is always something new to talk about in this part of the world. If it is not fuel queues which remain stubborn irrespective of the removal of subsidy about eleven months ago, it’s about the increase of tariff on electricity, a product that is hardly available in the market or even the soaring cost of […]

CLICHES often find expression in some happenings in this nation. The more things change the more they remain the same. That was the position of French writer, John Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849. His words are very much alive in Nigeria today with uncanny accuracy.  The big news last week from Kaduna State, which was nasty […]

There has been a swirl of news around Multichoice lately. On one hand, Canal+, the Vivendi owned French pay TV giant, has made a hefty $2.9bn offer to buy the South African headquartered Multichoice, which has operations across Africa. Big money at play, you may want to say. On the other hand, Multichoice Nigeria, which is […]

THE story, last week, that Arise News Channel is live in 54 countries in Africa, including South Africa and nine other Southern African countries on the platform of Multichoice, sent a ball of excitement down my system and, at once, elicited the kind of euphoria and patriotic fervency I feel when a Nigerian is doing something […]

There is no shame whatsoever that the industry is serving less than 14 million of our huge population. What happens to the rest? 

FOR most people who see Las Vegas as the Sin City, what happens in Vegas remains in Vegas. They hardly want to talk about what goes on in those big hotels, how they lost hefty money at the casinos, how their boxing favourite lost a fight where they paid huge sums of money for front row […]

Looking at the pervasive insecurity in the nation at the moment, it will be right to say that the NIN-SIM Linkage Policy wasn’t a bad idea at all but for the sloppiness with which it was introduced by a former minister who literally slapped it on Nigerians as a necessity that must be executed within […]

FACED with terribly hot weather that was complicated by the dearth of power supply across the nation, quite a number of phone users and big corporate players really got distraught last week when voice and data services simply went down. Tension spiked some more, especially when this was happening at a time that food inflation was […]

It will be exciting to see how SLTV excites the market with its business plan; but it will be difficult to base your business plan on somebody’s ideas, plans, products  and programmes

The enabling laws setting up the NCC and NBC should be repealed to accommodate the new law that shelters the new body and its responsibilities

President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, last Thursday, appointed Abraham Oshadami as the Executive Commissioner, Technical Services at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC. When I stumbled on this bit of information taken from the statement by the Special Adviser to the President, Media and Publicity, Ajuri Ngelale, at about 2am Friday, my heart literally stopped beating, momentarily.  Also […]

The world does not wait for anybody and we should be happy that the Telecommunications sector will be well represented in Barcelona where attendees will have no choice but to contemplate the Future First