Author: Okoh Aihe
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OKOH AIHE: For AI, another layer in the stack?
By Okoh Aihe. The unveiling of the Artificial Intelligence Collective last week by Dr Bosun Tijani, Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, is a good call by the Nigerian government to play a lead role in the development and deployment of AI to resolve socio-economic challenges while developing new opportunities. The Collective is a…
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One good move and a false step – By Okoh Aihe
The Minister of Information and National Orientation, Mohammed Idris, has seen the light, seemingly. He has been speaking about the readiness of the Nigerian government to transform the nation’s legacy broadcast
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From Irrua to Abuja, a telecom user’s experience – By Okoh Aihe
It is certainly very refreshing to step out of your little bubble of comfort and visit some other parts of the country, especially for a good cause – the Reunion of ACCIOBA ‘79 Set, the Annunciation Catholic College Old Boys who left school in 1979. Please, don’t add 46 years ago so that you don’t…
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Telecommunications: More promises, less services – By Okoh Aihe
Once upon a time, there was an Access Gap Map prepared by the Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF). The map showed details of remote sites in the country or locations in not too distant environments where Telecommunications services were not available.
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Multichoice and latent broadcast issues – By Okoh Aihe
A simmering broadcast news recently has been the story of Multichoice Nigeria jacking up subscription rates on its DStv and GOtv packages in order to remain in business in Nigeria. Coming on the heels of other similar developments like the 50 percent hike in telecoms tariff, and the stratospheric increase in electricity tariffs last year,…
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How Nigeria can benefit from $11 trillion mobile industry – By Okoh Aihe
The mobile industry will post nearly $11 trillion in economic value by 2030 or 8.4 percent of GDP. Last year, 2024, mobile technology and services generated 5.8 percent of global GDP, which is equivalent to $6.5 trillion of economic value.
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A mobile industry in need of help – By Okoh Aihe
As the global community gathers at the Mobile World Congress (MWC25) in Barcelona, from March 3 – 6, 2025, with the theme: Converge. Connect. Create, it will be interesting to find out how well the mobile industry is doing at home, I mean in Nigeria, and whether we are close to having any serious relationship…
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And Prof Adaba joins the conference in heaven – By Okoh Aihe
One by one, the elders are taking a leave of us, perhaps tired of this fetid putrescence of a noxious earthly abode, to attend a big conference which seems to be happening in heaven, according to a senior colleague with an acerbic sense of humour. The conference is for good people only, he intoned.
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The world looks at the good side of AI – By Okoh Aihe
It was good that Nigeria’s voice was heard at the AI Summit in Paris, France, even if peripherally. It was heard, nothing can subtract from that. Receiving the Google Chief Executive Officer, Sundar Pichai, who led a team to visit him, President Bola Ahmed TInubu, used the opportunity to tell the world that Nigeria was…
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Mr President, NCC Board too important to be ignored – By Okoh Aihe
The other day the government announcement the board appointments of forty-two government agencies and parastatals. Very good news it was for me, hoping that at last, my silent and open prayers must have been answered.