LITTLE by little, we will get there. With the will and determination to be like progressive countries of the world, it is assured that Nigeria will get it right, and bet it — technology, yes, information technology — is the vehicle that will get us there.

LAST Thursday, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC organized a broadband forum with the theme, Demand as Catalyst for Broadband Services in Nigeria.

WHEN, a few months ago, the Lagos State Government created an agency which it named the Urban Furniture Regulatory Unit (URFU), not a few eyebrows were raised.

The NCC (Nigerian Communications Commission), in response to the falling quality of GSM network service in Nigeria recently imposed a fine on the various network service providers for their culpability and lackadaisical attitude in the provision of quality telecoms services in Nigeria.

IT seems that the is sue of SIM Card registration and the attendant controversies since the project was mooted and executed last year is not about to recede from the front-burner status it somehow acquired.

The advantage of SIM (subscriber identity module) card registration has been severally canvassed in many quarters. Whenever SIM card registration is mentioned, my mind goes to the idea about how this will help Nigeria track different types of criminals who seize the opportunity of undocumented use of SIM card in Nigeria to their advantage.

FOR the telecommunications sector, it is raining, and the rain is in torrents. In the last few months, the sector has become anybody’s whipping boy, such that whosoever has the wherewithal to make his or her voice heard turns in direction of the sector.

AVID watchers of developments in the telecommunications sector would have known that the Federal Government has issued right of way (RoW) guidelines for the laying of cables on federal highways in a bid to make life easier for telcos who desire to lay cables for their various operations.

SEVERAL weeks ago, a conflict in regulatory roles erupted between two agencies of government – the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the National Environmental Standards Regulatory and Enforcement Agency (NESREA).

A little over a week ago, fresh controversy erupted in the public domain about an exercise whose outcome the nation is awaiting – SIM card registration.