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 […]

WHAT should be a normal business dispute between two mobile operators, MTN and Globacom, has provided a fertile ground for pseudo patriots and even ignoramus to spew all kinds of comments that can further poison relationships in the industry. For most of these people, and you will marvel that some of them actually fall into the […]

I saw Richard Mofe Damijo (RMD) flanked by members of his family, Nicol and Tega, ring the closing bell on the last trading day at the Nigeria Stock Exchange (NGX) in an atmosphere one would want to relish forever. It was pretty cool. A family chosen for such honorific was a defining finale for a year […]

While a comprehensive housekeeping is going on at the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) – internal movements of staff, transfer from the head office in Abuja to other parts of the country or even outright uprooting from one area of specialisation to a completely new one, with the hope that such action will lead to reformatting the organisation […]

The inability of the nation to complete the SIM/NIN harmonisation programme introduced by the government a couple of years ago is a clear illustration that there are no simple processes or even stories in our part of the world. Ordinary SIM registration which a traveller would normally conclude at any international airport on acquiring a mobile […]