Author: Okoh Aihe
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The agama lizard allegory for telecoms – By Okoh Aihe
When we were children and worked in fresh farms with our parents, we didn’t understand the heroic story of the agama lizard and the tall palm tree somewhere in the farm. Once in a while, you were alerted to the base of the tree by the sound from the lizard which had just landed on…
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I can’t criticise President Tinubu on the NCC Board – By Okoh Aihe
There is something that age does to a man. It doesn’t just equip him with more rags than the Millennials, the Gen-Z or the Generation Alpha, as Chinua Achebe would have loved to put it in one of the greatest books ever, Things Fall Apart; age slows down a man and tempers his views with…
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The case for MultiChoice – By Okoh Aihe
Major Pay-TV service provider, MultiChoice, is in a situation that needs careful understanding and sorting without emotional recriminations. The fortunes are plummeting and that is not a good testimony for a business that was for a time a valued corporate ambassador for the nation’s business ecosystem.
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For the regulator, little things that matter – By Okoh Aihe
There is something they say about digging yourself into a hole. It usually takes more time to claw your way back. That is, if you ever want to see light again.
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What does The Big Picture mean to DSO? – By Okoh Aihe
The news last week that the Federal Government is seemingly finalising plans to put the Digital Switchover (DSO) on an accelerator that can immediately take it to about 10 million people, was very elevating and, for me, it marks a good turn for the Tinubu administration.
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Like NCC, let transparency be the equalizer – By Okoh Aihe
The directive by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), that telecom operators should pay compensation to their subscribers for prolonged network outages and also report such outages on the Commission’s Major Outage Reporting Portal, is a good one which aligns completely with the transparency garb the Commission has adorned over the years.
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One reguIator for the broadcast industry, please – By Okoh Aihe
I had no prior information that the Kano State Government sought help from the NBC before coming up with a landmark decision on live political broadcast early in the month.
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Telecommunications – three hours in the past – By Okoh Aihe
The journey started in the bank and ended in the rain. Just a little transaction that demands your presence in the bank in one of those rare moments, since everything now comes at the press of a button, there was an indeterminate network downtime. So, you simply stay in the bank waiting for a miracle…
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Telecoms colloquium, beyond Holding Talks? – By Okoh Aihe
Late dramatist and playwright, Prof Ola Rotimi, once wrote a play, Holding Talks. In this work, which falls under the genre of theatre of the absurd, two characters are having a conversation forever or will ad nauseam be a better word? In this conversation, there is neither head nor tail and the repetition can be…
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Resolving the telecoms service disruptions in Kogi State – By Okoh Aihe
Just when you think you have heard or seen it all in the convoluting story that is the nation’s telecommunications industry, you find out that the story hasn’t really started at all. In fact, more things begin to emerge from the cauldron of mysteries in the manner of what they call stranger than fiction. Only…