It is a thing of joy that Nigeria is actively involved in the global discourse on AI; Nigeria is listed as one of the countries in President Biden’s global coalition on AI; Nigeria is also listed among the signatories of the Bletchley Declaration

What seems to be the immediate challenge is for them to transcend the lure of words and focus on the low hanging fruits that may yield immediate results for a people that are too tired waiting in the queue for promised dividends of democracy

AS you read this material AFRICAST 2023 is running in Lagos. It began yesterday after a most underserved but ignoble hiatus which remains a manifest display of inertia to scholarship by some people in the broadcast regulatory Commission. Africast is the intellectual creation of the Commission aimed at harmonising the understanding of the various stakeholders […]

I wish to point out that government agencies like the NCC, come with a basket of challenges.

Managing our spectrum efficiently will create pathways for the growth of new technologies and improve access to government services,” he said. The minister is very much on point. 

What is very clear is that some of these young people could be global citizens in the months and years ahead based on what the state has bequeathed to them
through SkillUpImo

The situation in the country has made life difficult for the people, and has made planning impossible

One of the biggest achievements of the previous administration is the introduction of Fifth Generation Technology, 5G, which was expected to come with a bang but ended in a whimper as it has not delivered any of the expected miracles.

In a world of digital broadcasting, the station is so ill- equipped for modern operations in terms of equipment and personnel and it is no surprise that it has virtually lost out in all ramifications to private broadcasters. While a number of stations in the country rely on cyber sets, including expansive video walls, with a full range of digital equipment, the NTA still remains on analogue equipment and sends out dark and funny looking pictures to people who are still unfortunate to watch the channel. 

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