Tag: Okoh Aihe
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Nothing has changed, my Brother – By Okoh Aihe
Our material on this page last week titled: Between NCC and NMC, good news in small packets, has elicited a little dig from a very close friend who observed we almost created the impression that the telecoms industry is witnessing an el dorado.
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Between NCC and NMC, good news in small packets – By Okoh Aihe
All of a sudden, the little information on the NCC website, that equipment manufacturer and vendor, Nokia, has agreed with the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), to train some Nigerians on its 4G and 5G equipment, means so much to me now.
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Multichoice, Nigeria not a rogue State – By Okoh Aihe
I love the deregulated sector where the operators are free to apply their business ingenuity to gain market advantage knowing that there are rules of engagement to promote robust competition.
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Like the lizard, broadcasting lies prostrate – By Okoh Aihe
I am looking at two pictures of the Information and National Orientation Minister, Muhammad Idris. One is ebullient with smiles breaking all over his face as he assured the Independent Broadcasters Association of Nigeria (IBAN) members who visited him that the Tinubu administration would avail a single digit loan to help stabilise and grow the…
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For a broadcast czar, it’s 365 days into eternity – By Okoh Aihe
In the evening of May 29, 2023, I found myself paying tributes to Dr Raymond Aleogho Dokpesi. “They didn’t know you and they never will,” I wrote.
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A writer in search of NTEL – By Okoh Aihe
My friend wasn’t happy with me last week. How can you be writing technology and you allow these operators to run away with my money? But how would I be clairvoyant to know your little fights with the operators?
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From Rehoboam syndrome to cybersecurity tax – By Okoh Aihe
There is always something new to talk about in this part of the world. If it is not fuel queues which remain stubborn irrespective of the removal of subsidy about eleven months ago, it’s about the increase of tariff on electricity, a product that is hardly available in the market or even the soaring cost…
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In plain irony, government remains a disruptor of digital economy – By Okoh Aihe
Cliches often find expression in some happenings in this nation. The more things change the more they remain the same. That was the position of French writer, John Baptiste Alphonse Karr in 1849. His words are very much alive in Nigeria today with uncanny accuracy.
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For Multichoice, a call for restraints and reason – By Okoh Aihe
There has been a swirl of news around Multichoice lately. On one hand, Canal+, the Vivendi owned French pay TV giant, has made a hefty $2.9bn offer to buy the South African headquartered Multichoice, which has operations across Africa. Big money at play, you may want to say.
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With signals in 54 countries, Arise escalates competition across Africa – By Okoh Aihe
The story, last week, that Arise News Channel is live in 54 countries in Africa, including South Africa and nine other Southern African countries on the platform of Multichoice, sent a ball of excitement down my system and, at once, elicited the kind of euphoria and patriotic fervency I feel when a Nigerian is doing…