MY friend lives in the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, and naturally feels entitled to the good things coming from the seat of government; or modified slightly, feels entitled to the enhanced quality and bounteous provisions for the status of a country’s capital, the way other capitals of other countries of the world are treated. By way of living the life, he used to walk with some kind of gait, a little swagger which unfortunately has been humbled by reality.

IN the euphoric readiness to receive 5G services into the country’s telecom ecosystem, nobody is noticing the fast disappearing line between the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, and the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, headed by a Minister in the Ministry.

THERE is a level at which a point of advantage becomes a curse, especially if the possessor failed or refused to mine its advantages with the hope and prayer that it will last forever. They fail to observe the speedy evolutionary process of the world, especially in the tech ecosystem, with the fervent prayer that what they hold will become a holy grail. My mind is on the SAT-3/WASC undersea cable for which NITEL was the subscriber on behalf of Nigeria.

Spiritual Intelligence shoots Prof Aibinu to the summit

TWO significant projects of the Nigerian government hang on a cliff at the moment. The NIN/SIM registration which was supposed to be a 15-day quick walk in December 2020 has spiralled into the third year and current measures being taken to bring the process to conclusion are only indicative of desperation on the part of the government.

IT can be a puzzle sometimes how a seemingly good deed can generate so much controversy and even have a day in the court. It is even more puzzling when such a deed is anchored on the law setting up an organisation with a view to helping industry and its operators.

By Okoh Aihe IT was last week. I saw a copy of a national newspaper and my eyes were fixed on the picture of this generation of Nigerians – young men and women, and even boys and girls, who were rocking the investment world with their brilliance. The vivacity of that picture enchants. The rambunctious […]

IN my neck of the wood the snake is not a likeable animal at all; not just that it crawls on its belly to its eternal shame but more of its subtlety and venomous wickedness. Twice I was an unfortunate victim of its wickedness.

Speaking at the launch of the 5G Policy, the President directed the national security challenges when it comes on stream

By Okoh Aihe There is story that is permanently frozen in my brain. In those terrible days of the Nigerian Civil War, when Prof. Chinua Achebe had gathered himself together to break the news of Christopher Okigbo’s death at the war front to the family, his three-year-old son, Ike, screamed: “Daddy, don’t let him die!” […]

By Okoh Aihe For most of last week 5G  had a bad story. For a technology that is expected to foster advantage in affecting human connectivity and machine to machine connectivity as well, 5G got into some kind of nightmarish flux that really made people begin to have a second look at the technology. This […]

By Okoh Aihe The Nigerian government was effusive last week as it announced lifting the ban which it placed on Twitter since June 4, 2021. Like a flash, the news trended globally, with local and international media organisations feasting on the statement from government, to the effect that the action was taken after the microblogging […]

By Okoh Aihe For nearly two years the global digital ecosystem has altered drastically. Social relationship has taken a tumble, leaving solitude and individualism as necessary evils to accommodate. Education services delivering is oscillating between online and in-person, a nuanced hybrid that puts so much pressure on digital tools and network build-out. Businesses are searching […]

I begin this material with a solicitation that you join me in prayers for a dear friend, Ahmed Abudulkadir, who was kidnapped on Monday along with his daughter in Bakori, near Funtua in Katsina State. Ahmed is a nice fellow, a genuine go-happy gentleman who has no time for misery and regrets

By Okoh Aihe WHEN Ahmed Joda was a super permanent secretary in the General Yakubu Gown regime, I was still in the primary school in the years that Nigeria lost its innocence to the Civil War. Years later, when I had the rare opportunity to work at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, after graduating from the […]