Tag: Okoh Aihe
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For broadcasting, a future ungarnished – By Okoh Aihe
It was pretty good news for the broadcast space the other day when the broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), gave a report sheet dating back to 2018. For a country seemingly wallowing in chaos, it was a breather to steer us away from the nail-biting Naira scarcity out there and the consequential outrage…
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Empowering telcos to reduce the pains of cashless policy – By Okoh Aihe
On my birthday, my prayer for Nigeria is not a cashless crunch that sends nearly everybody to the very nadir of life, but a prayer that Nigerians feel the kind of verve and optimism that have enveloped me this day, and build the kind of hope and audacity that ridicule adversity.
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A broadcast conversation unbroken by hermetic controls – By Okoh Aihe
There is something about irony which dresses like an apparition and walks the street to humble man’s best intentioned efforts. In the last day of a two-day programme, last Friday, when a small group of people drawn from various fields of interests, were working on a communique centred on the independence of the broadcast regulator,…
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Time for TV to help the ordinary folks – By Okoh Aihe
The election season has the magic of driving me to images of the past, a particular story which brings a wry smile to my face. One day at the National Association of Broadcasters Conference (NAB) in Las Vegas, my friend who used to play very heavy in Nollywood, was interested in buying a particular camera…
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A place for Peace among the Stars – By Okoh Aihe
Our dear friend, Peace Anyiam-Osigwe, went on a long journey last week and she is not likely to be back soon. No, not ever. She has gone the way of all mortals, living behind a gamut of works packed into her short life span to speak for her in a most voluble way.
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Does the Cybercrime Act protect Empress Njamah and other tormented? – By Okoh Aihe
Those who rail against social media have their reasons. They are aware of the beauty, advantages and even the opportunities the various platforms can confer. But they are more troubled by the scurrilities the platforms can dredge up and splash on the face of a society already reeling from the malfeasance of politicians without conscience.
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Even with technology, time outsmarts the politician – By Okoh Aihe
The ephemerality of time is one thing that gnaws the innards of the politician. If a wish list was possible in the New Year, he would ask God for time to stay still, you know, like Joshua making that great declaration for the sun to remain still right in the middle of the sky, over…
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With NITDA Bill, NASS prepares hemlock for telecoms industry – By Okoh Aihe
Writing on the NITDA Bill on September 1, this year, this writer concluded aphoristically: This particular Bill is outrageous and annoyingly duplicitous, a grotesque mirror image of the original already in existence. The National Assembly should be wary of all contraptions that come in the name of Bill, including this ostentatious manifestation of ignorance, arrogance…
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Cashless Policy with loads of headache – By Okoh AIhe
I like the story of the madman and the fire in the bush which I always tell with relish. In one of those remote villages in Edo State where the harmattan could hit with ferocious force, the madman had set a little fire to warm himself. All of a sudden the whole bush was on…
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For 5G, little lessons that build an industry – By Okoh Aihe
What seemed a miscarriage of reality last year was righted last week when mobile service provider, Airtel, became the sole contender in a 5G Auction scheduled for this month. As the sole bidder, Airtel will now shell out the sum of $273.6m as payment for a Lot of 100MHz in the 3.5GHz spectrum band.