Saving DSO from needless controversies, by Okoh Aihe
Writing about the fresh aspirations of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) and FreeTV being prepped for launch on June 17, 2026, we declared our support for the regulator in choosing the satellite option but warned that the process needs to be more transparent and inclusive. Before the afternoon of the very […]
Between NCC and NMC, good news in small packets, by Okoh Aihe
ALL of a sudden, the little information on the NCC website, that equipment manufacturer and vendor, Nokia, has agreed with the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, to train some Nigerians on its 4G and 5G equipment, means so much to me now. There was a signed Memorandum of […]
Multichoice – Nigeria not a rogue state, by Okoh Aihe
I LOVE the deregulated sector where the operators are free to apply their business ingenuity to gain market advantage knowing that there are rules of engagement to promote robust competition. Rules of engagement abhor the shifting of goal posts which is our forte in this part of the world. We like cutting corners to demonstrate our […]
Like the lizard, broadcasting lies prostrate, by Okoh Aihe
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. […]
For a broadcast czar, it’s 365 days into eternity, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
A writer in search of NTEL, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
