Saving DSO from needless controversies, by Okoh Aihe
Writing about the fresh aspirations of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) and FreeTV being prepped for launch on June 17, 2026, we declared our support for the regulator in choosing the satellite option but warned that the process needs to be more transparent and inclusive. Before the afternoon of the very […]
Little role for space tech in nation’s security architecture
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 […]
On 5G, the world will move on without Nigeria
By Okoh Aihe The Nigerian Senate has no competence on 5G – fifth generation mobile network, that technology with the kind of capacity that can overawe any other technology in terms of speed. That competence resides, first, with the regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, because of enormous capacity built up in-house; and, secondly, with […]
Little role for space tech in nation’s security architecture
People are getting exhausted under punishing surreal anomie, and with no help coming their way, it is a frightening time of holding on to straws, hoping that help would come miraculously
Frightening auguries for a country’s DSO
By Okoh Aihe If some miracles don’t happen very soon around the corner, the euphoria over the launch of the second phase of the Digital Switchover, DSO, which began in Lagos penultimate week, could as well be an ephemeral little bubble which doesn’t need the sharp accuracy of a needle to deflate. Pity that some […]
Olusegun Ogunsanya: A telecoms luminary gets a big continental call
By Okoh Aihe GOOD news is almost a rarity in the land; so, when it comes, we almost have to stand on the rooftop to celebrate it with big megaphones in our hands. The other day we celebrated Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala for clinching the top job as the Director General of the World Trade Organisation, […]
For DSO, a new life in a season of expectations
By Okoh Aihe THE thing about the future is that it steals on you like a thief at night and you are hardly prepared. The launch of the second phase of the Digital Switchover, DSO, which looked very far away, is beginning tomorrow from Lagos. Whether it is the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, who should […]
With Twitter, indignation most uncalled for
Life in Nigeria would have continued its new normal last week, not the new normal imposed by COVID-19, but the bizarre reality of waking up to stories of deaths and attacks and threats of war – yes – that is the new normal, only if Twitter did not decide, in a flash of corporate affront and effrontery to Nigeria, to take its African headquarters to Ghana
With Twitter, an indignation most uncalled for
By Okoh Aihe LIFE in Nigeria would have continued its new normal last week, not the new normal imposed by COVID-19, but the bizarre reality of waking up to stories of deaths and attacks and threats of war – yes – that is the new normal, only if Twitter did not decide, in a flash […]
Broadcasting in search of patriot to clean up its failures
By Okoh Aihe THIS is Monday morning. At about the time of writing this material, the Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, is organising a broadcast industry stakeholders meeting in Lagos to discuss the readiness of the Lagos zone to welcome the launch of the Digital Switchover, DSO. There is a reason Lagos […]
Double jeopardy for the broadcast and telecoms industry
By Okoh Aihe THE broadacast and the telecommunications industries are going through terrible patches in the hands of those who are supposed to be keepers of the temple. At separate fora last week appointees of government spoke about the sectors in a manifest display of how very ignorant they are about the sectors they should […]
