From Abuja, ATU makes Ubuntu call, by Okoh Aihe
For the policymakers, regulators and industry leaders who gathered in Abuja last week for the Seventh Ordinary Session of the African Telecommunications Union (ATU) Conference of Plenipotentiaries, the message was clear: the need for deeper collaboration, strengthening of relationships and sharing of peer experiences in order to give the continent a deserved place in the global […]
A hunter’s tale and a troubled telecoms sector, by Okoh Aihe
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.
From Olympics to Telecoms, the world brooks no tardiness, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
Technology, the tortoise in every story, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
For telecoms, coincidence becomes nightmare, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
BON raises a cry for NBC, by Okoh Aihe
IT WAS pretty cool last week when the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON, made a plea for the survival of the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, as it called on the government to adequately fund the organisation to enable it to do its job successfully. The NBC is the regulator of the broadcast industry. Usually the relationship […]
