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 […]

By Okoh Aihe I SIT in front of the television these days and I’m muttering to myself; I am probably one of the many people in Nigeria not thinking right. Our world is esoterica. We perhaps shout fire where there is even no tiny smoke around or run for cover when there is tranquil all […]

Oko Aihe GSM service provider, MTN, last week became a victim of its expansive growth and capacity in Nigeria when it struggled to correct a Reuters’ report on Nigeria concerning insecurity. After all, Achilles thus have a weak part of the body in spite of his famed strength. Unfortunately, that weak spot was further exposed […]

By Okoh Aihe GSM service provider, MTN, last week became a victim of its expansive growth and capacity in Nigeria when it struggled to correct a Reuters’ report on Nigeria concerning insecurity. After all, Achilles thus have a weak part of the body in spite of his famed strength. Unfortunately, that weak spot was further exposed […]

By Okoh Aihe Let me state without equivocation that it looks to me that Nigeria never really forgave Twitterfor taking its African headquarters to neighbouring Ghana. So all that shemozzle about President Muhammadu Buhari’s tweet being removed was a deliberate scheme to excavate a residual hurt and manipulate it to mask or obviate one of […]

As the nation sank deeper in the mire last week, the Chief of Defence Staff, Gen. Lucky Irabor, had the presence of mind to call for a productive synergy between the government, security forces and the media in order to put an end to the festering security challenges in the country. Represented by Rear Admiral […]

By Okoh Aihe As the security challenges in the country grow more complex, usually some questions come to mind. For instance, what is the role of the National Space and Research Development Agency, NASRDA, and NIGCOMSAT in assisting and strengthening the nation’s security architecture, that is, if you permit the cliché? Why will they never […]