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 […]
NIN-SIM linkage – a story in search of a good ending, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
Cable force majeure in the international waters, by Okoh Aihe
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 […]
Pay TV market prepares for new competition, by Okoh Aihe
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
An urgent message for Tinubu and the National Assembly, by Okoh Aihe
The enabling laws setting up the NCC and NBC should be repealed to accommodate the new law that shelters the new body and its responsibilities
A generational shift at the NCC? By Okoh Aihe
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 […]
Mobile World Congress: More than an annual ritual, by Okoh Aihe
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
Digital language for Imo youths, by Okoh Aihe
WHEN I was much younger, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the late political sage, in a moment of political flamboyance and philosophical exactitude, had said life was a “continuum”. It was the time children still rushed to their dictionaries searching for words that could build up their vocabularies. Oh, could he be talking about life stretching into the future […]
A Minister’s tech dreams and the enemies within, by Okoh Aihe
The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Dr Bosun Tijani, is having a great time under the present administration of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu. That is the way we see it in this part of the world. When a cabinet minister hops from place to place, sometimes flying long distances without even the opportunity to […]
Let truth heal the rotten process of SIM/NIN harmonisation, by Okoh Aihe
I WAS just wondering, why can’t we perform very simple tasks as a nation without unnecessary perambulation? The NIN/SIM harmonisation was planned to be a very simple exercise, just for only two weeks. But disharmony has never been so much on the stroll than in this exercise which has become so obfuscated that reason and excuses have […]
Between NBC and MRA, what happens to regulation now? By Okoh Aihe
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 […]
