Social Media, much more than fines, by Okoh Aihe
The hefty fine of $940m placed on Meta in New Mexico has retained Social Media in the centre of unwanted discourse and concerned efforts by jurisdictional authorities to deal with a menace that threatens today as well as the future of nations since the young ones are mostly affected in a world that seems to be […]
Time for BON to help NBC cure its weakness
THE Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON, last week, raised a cry that the broadcast industry was facing very uncertain times in the country. Ironically, most of the problems seem to be coming from the curator of the industry, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, which, by law, is charged with the regulation, protection and promotion of the […]
Broadcasting as beauty and the beast
By Okoh Aihe PAUL Rusesabagina, whose heroics during the 1994 Rwanda genocide inspired the Oscar nominated movie, Hotel Rwanda, is back in the United States, after being released from jail in his country, to spend the rest of his remaining life in peace and never dream of politics in his country again. Resisting a bizarre […]
For Telecoms, the taste of half bread
By Okoh Aihe TWO evils remain insidiously inimical to any industry. They are very much alive in the telecommunications industry, like Prometheus unchained, ready to do damage any time. They are multiple taxation and regulatory capture. For any business, the knowledge of the existence of this twin evil remains the beginning of wisdom, and the […]
Technology, always about national interest
By Okoh Aihe I AM not going to write about those who break bones and spill blood to impose themselves as leaders on the hapless people. I will not lampoon those who hoped upon hope expecting the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC, to deliver on a project on which it has shown infinite incapacity to […]
Prof Mahmood Yakubu in the eternal labyrinth of technology
By Okoh Aihe THE other night sleep went far away from me and I found comfort in my little phone as I tried to find out what the rest of the global community was saying about Nigeria after a mismanaged election. You see, in spite of the challenges of our world, in spite of how […]
A President’s final dance, and they accuse technology
By Okoh Aihe PRESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari sought to use the elections as a redemptive opportunity to burnish his tenure in office, mostly blighted and blemished by sustained bad performance and wrong decisions. He wished to give the nation such a free, fair and transparent election that would seal his place in history as a very […]
For broadcasting, a future ungarnished
By Okoh Aihe IT was pretty good news for the broadcast space the other day when the broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, gave a report sheet dating back to 2018. For a country seemingly wallowing in chaos, it was a breather to steer us away from the nail-biting Naira scarcity out there and […]
Empowering telcos to reduce the pain of cashless policy
By Okoh Aihe ON my birthday, my prayer for Nigeria is not a cashless crunch that sends nearly everybody to the very nadir of life, but a prayer that Nigerians feel the kind of verve and optimism that have enveloped me this day, and build the kind of hope and audacity that ridicule adversity. Apart […]
A broadcast conversation unbroken by hermetic controls
By Okoh Aihe THERE is something about irony that dresses like an apparition and walks the street to humble man’s best intentioned efforts. On the last day of a two-day programme, last Friday, when a small group of people drawn from various fields of interest were working on a communiqué centering on the independence of […]
Telecoms, a humble review of a minister’s scorecard
By Okoh Aihe IT would have been a whiff of good news for the telecommunications industry last week if the evidence on the ground had not been overwhelmingly negative. It was the turn of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Pantami, to make his presentation at the 19th edition of President Muhammadu […]
Time for TV to help the ordinary folks
By Okoh Aihe THE election season has the magic of driving me to images of the past; a particular story brings a wry smile to my face. One day at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference, NAB, in Las Vegas, my friend, who used to play very heavily in Nollywood, was interested in buying a […]
A place for Peace among the stars
By Okoh Aihe OUR dear friend, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, went on a long journey last week, and she is not likely to be back soon. No, not ever. She has gone the way of all mortals, leaving behind a gamut of works packed into her short life span to speak for her in a most voluble […]
Even with technology, time outsmarts the politician
By Okoh Aihe THE ephemerality of time is one thing that gnaws at the innards of the politician. If a wish-list was possible in the New Year, he would ask God for time to stand still, you know, like Joshua making that great declaration for the sun to remain still right in the middle of […]
With NITDA Bill National Assembly prepares hemlock for telecoms industry
By Okoh Aihe WRITING on the NITDA Bill on September 1, this year, this writer concluded aphoristically: This particular Bill is outrageous and annoyingly duplicitous, a grotesque mirror image of the original already in existence. The National Assembly should be wary of all contraptions that come in the name of Bill, including this ostentatious manifestation […]
For 5G, little lessons that build an industry
By Okoh Aihe WHAT seemed a miscarriage of reality last year was righted last week when mobile service provider, Airtel, became the sole contender in a 5G auction scheduled for this month. As the sole bidder, Airtel will now shell out the sum of $273.6 million as payment for a lot of 100 MHz in […]
