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 […]

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 […]