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 […]
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 […]
