THE National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, got a dip in reputation and responsibilities last week when a Federal High Court in Abuja shaved it of its capacity to ever place a fine on any of the broadcast stations it regulates. It was a major victory for Media Rights Agenda, MRA, which had taken the Commission to court […]

WHAT should be a normal business dispute between two mobile operators, MTN and Globacom, has provided a fertile ground for pseudo patriots and even ignoramus to spew all kinds of comments that can further poison relationships in the industry. For most of these people, and you will marvel that some of them actually fall into the […]

I saw Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD) flanked by members of his family, Nicol and Tega, ring the closing bell on the last trading day at the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NGX) in an atmosphere one would want to relish forever. It was pretty cool. A family chosen for such honorific was a defining finale for a year […]

While a comprehensive housekeeping is going on at the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) – internal movements of staff, transfer from the head office in Abuja to other parts of the country or even outright uprooting from one area of specialisation to a completely new one, with the hope that such action will lead to reformatting the organisation […]

The inability of the nation to complete the SIM/NIN harmonisation programme introduced by the government a couple of years ago is a clear illustration that there are no simple processes or even stories in our part of the world. Ordinary SIM registration which a traveller would normally conclude at any international airport on acquiring a mobile […]

The story of their meeting excited me. In my mind’s eyes, I have always pictured two friends meeting, not a boss and a subordinate, but two friends with corresponding minds and interests but also with transcendental knowledge of the millennial generation on tech issues, to discuss the fate of an industry and a regulatory agency which one […]

One of the most profound headlines for me in those days came from a Nigerian magazine whose name I can’t recall. Big Fish Swallow Small Fish was the title of the story. I think it was in the 80s, I am not so sure any more, but it remains etched in my memory till the end […]

THE story of Nigeria’s attendance at COP 28 holding in Dubai will not stop making the rounds very soon. How a country with so much hunger, so much bile, and so much poverty in the extreme could take a contingent of 1,411 people to a climate programme in a gathering of the global community in Dubai […]

THE story of the nation’s implementation of the digital switchover, DSO, process  appears convoluted and headed towards an uncomplimentary denouement except urgent steps are taken to refocus the exercise.  Yes, urgency should form the soul of the implementation process. DSO is not just only about the benefits of the exercise in terms of quality of broadcasting […]

THE telecommunications industry was very busy last week. From Abuja to Lagos, activities were intense as the various stakeholders engaged in actions that could stop the industry from further degradation.  The Senate at a plenary formally confirmed the appointment of Dr Aminu Maida as the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, after […]