My friend is not a land grabber. Those whipping up the sentiments at play in Rivers State may have their reasons beyond the scope of our immediate understanding. I have had to look at a couple of materials in the past few days to confirm my understanding of the story playing out there.

THERE is a new song in town summarised in sudden excitement. Tinubu’s Ministers have been waxing lyrical about their readiness to transform this nation called Nigeria. It has been one wave of euphoria after the other. The President has given me a job. I will do it without looking back, some have vowed. All of […]

I DO not know Bosun Tijani, the new Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, who, along with his colleagues, was sworn in on Monday. But I can see the picture of a young man standing before some dodos and dinosaurs in the National Assembly, who dredged up his past to invalidate his opportunity of […]

THERE has never been any doubt about the transformative power of technology both in terms of cash availability and socio-economic development of any environment or nation. You only need to look at the big tech companies in Silicon Valley at San Jose in the United States, and the top range tech companies in Asia to […]

IT is not impossible for a regulator to be worried about the health of one of its licensees. There are several reasons for this to happen. It’s either the operator is not performing well in the market place or there could be some backend happenings impairing its operations. For an operator worth its salt, whose […]

Cyber Politics painstakingly aggregates a lot of studies and expert opinions, mixed with detailed personal doctoral research into modern technology, social media and political communications apropos voter behaviour and decisions in the country

THE story of Nigeria gets convoluted by the minute. Just when you think a resolution is becoming a likely prospect, a sub plot simply pops up to complicate the entire story line and make suspense the most readily available commodity to a flummoxed participant.  There is always a new story; like the story of the […]

In spite of being subjected to a sustained subterranean assault in the past eight years of the Muhammadu Buhari administration, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, still remains one of the five star agencies in the country. The pillars holding that regulatory agency have been built over a time but some staff of the Commission are […]

The apotheosis of Dokpesi Anthony Aleogho Raymond, DAAR, was confirmed penultimate week in Agenebode, Edo State, when, in an elevated moment of deserved glory, his remains were placed in a mausoleum at his residence by the riverside as a lasting testimony for his progeny that “here lives the spirit of a man who gave the […]

The boards of  parastatals and agencies are peopled by politicians, most of whom are so unprincipled that in whatever capacity they find accommodation, they serve as virus to destroy the system

If strange things happened at the NBC, it was worse at the NCC where the minister simply took control of all the parastatals under him

An industry source called the other day to ask one troubling question: did you hear anything? I hear things all the time was my riposte. It will be an unfortunate disservice to over three decades in the journalism profession if I don’t hear things.  Oh, this is about Dr. Isa Pantami, former Minister of Communications […]

For the first time since I started writing my column, Simply Tech, in 2020, my pen failed me. My fingers were too numb to command the computer keys and the brain simply just refused to function coherently, having been so shocked out of rhythm by the apotheosis of one of the greatest souls that ever […]

By Okoh Aihe IN another one week, the new government of Nigeria will be over two days old. Still enjoying the freshness of a child with all his innocence, if there is anything like that in the life of some of our politicians who are wayward for crookedness. The other significant import is that every […]

By Okoh Aihe THERE was a significant development last week at the domain of the broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC. In a judgement that has been hailed as landmark, if you have stomach for cliches, a Federal High Court, forbade perpetually the regulator to ever place any fine on a broadcast operator. This […]