Tag: Okoh Aihe
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Between MTN and 9Mobile, not yet the case of big fish swallows small fish – By Okoh Aihe
One of the most profound headlines for me in those days came from a Nigerian magazine whose name I can’t recall. Big Fish Swallow Small Fish was the title of the story. I think it was in the 80s
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From WRC-23 to COP28, telecom binds with a thread – By Okoh Aihe
The story of Nigeria’s attendance at COP 28 holding in Dubai will not stop making the rounds very soon. How a country with so much hunger, so much bile, and so much poverty in the extreme could take a contingent of 1411 people to a climate programme in a gathering of the global community in…
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Making the DSO work in Nigeria – By Okoh Aihe
The story of the nation’s implementation of the digital switchover (DSO) process appears convoluted and headed towards an uncomplimentary denouement except urgent steps are taken to refocus the exercise.
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A busy week for telecommunications – By Okoh Aihe
The telecommunications industry was very busy last week. From Abuja to Lagos, activities were intense as the various stakeholders engaged in actions that could stop the industry from further degradation.
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A DStv package for the new NBC boss – By Okoh Aihe
While the new Director General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Charles Ebuebu, savoured the opportunity provided by Africast to introduce himself beyond the shores of this nation, penultimate week, another package awaited him in the office. Not palatable at all.
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Nigeria’s AI dream and the agony of hunger – By Okoh Aihe
Two things troubled me last Friday to the point of distress. One. My wife, who is the real Government of my life, woke up very early in the morning and was watching a video on her phone. This was unusual.
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For telecoms and broadcasting, let the eagle perch and services improve – By Okoh Aihe
Those who bragged that President Bola Ahmed Tinubu wasn’t feeling the heat from the cases at the Supreme Court, became lying knaves last week when the president, in a relieved response to his victory, told some of the political appointees who came to celebrate with him that they too should be happy because their jobs…
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For the new DG, AFRICAST 2023 presents an opportunity for a pitch – By Okoh Aihe
As you read this material AFRICAST 2023 is running in Lagos. It began yesterday after a most underserved but ignoble hiatus which remains a manifest display of inertia to scholarship by some people in the broadcast regulatory Commission.
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EVC Maida, hear what they are saying – By Okoh Aihe
On the day that a new Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) was appointed for the Nigerian communications Commission (NCC) by President Bola Ahmed Tinubu, in the person of Dr Aminu Maida, I made a call to a source within the Commission to gauge the pulse of the regulatory agency.
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For the Communications Minister, a document long overdue – By Okoh Aihe
The year 2001 is generally regarded as the tipping point of the telecommunications industry in Nigeria. That was the year the industry was democratised for ordinary folks to have access to telephony. It has been over two