Tag: Telecoms
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Telecoms subscribers welcome new SIM card registration
The National Association of Telecommunications Subscribers (NATCOMS) has described as a “welcome development” Federal Government’s lifting of ban on registration of new SIM cards. NATCOMS President, Adeolu Ogunbanjo, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Tuesday, said that the gesture would remove the hardship subscribers went through while the…
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For Telecoms, a place in the sun for alarmists, Okoh Aihe
Okoh Aihe There was suppressed excitement across the land last week. The country’s economy, dealt a massive blow into depression by COVID-19, suddenly witnessed a renaissance, a stirring out of that dazed stupor into some place under the sun, making some of us to learn how to smile again. The news was so sudden that…
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Telecoms: Matching industry stats with subscribers’ peace of mind, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe There is a total lack of shame when the puissant political opportunists who superintend our lives claim credit for every minuscule strand of progress, appropriate credit for everything but the ugly. Soon and very soon they will claim credit for the rising and the setting of the sun except that such foolhardiness…
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For Telecoms, a look back in Hope, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe The above title is not totally my idea. It is inspired by John Osborne’s 1956 play, Look Back in Anger, which played out at the Royal Theatre in the United Kingdom and was staged in parts of the world, thus making the playwright very wealthy and quite popular. But placed side by…
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How NCC sustained Nigeria’s telecoms sector in 2020
No doubt, the year 2020 will pass as one of the busiest year for telecommunications as despite so many being apart from friends and family due to the COVID-19 pandemic, people were still able to connect with each other through online video and audio calling, and in record numbers. In 2020, people turned to technology…
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Telecoms and security of lives: Time for desperate measures – Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe When we got into the first part of Kogi State, the young man behind me in the bus, who had engaged his colleagues in animated discussions all the way from Benin, tried to find out our location. Told that we were in Okene, he became a psychotic wreck and flew into…
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#EndSARS: The triumph of telecoms, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Let’s do a recall. Not in the manner of Arnold Schwarzenegger in Total Recall. This isn’t about movies, macho men, pyrotechnics, stuntmen and individual invincibility and heroism but the real world. Tianamen Square, 1989. There was a massacre of young people who raised their voices against the communist system. The protest started…
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Between Zulum and Fayemi, a good story for Telecoms? – Okoh Aihe
Okoh Aihe I have been thinking of two governors lately – Dr John Kayode Fayemi and Prof. Babagana Umara Zulum of Ekiti and Bornu States, respectively. Each time I ask myself, can this two be change agents in a positive way to bring the dividends of democracy to their people concerning telecommunication services and accompanying…
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Giving telecoms a new job in the age of pandemic, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe The lizard family enjoys the ignominious homogeneity of lying prostrate on the ground, so it is difficult to say which one has a bellyache. Same would be said of our educational sector apropos technology. Before COVID-19, there were technology connections going on in as many schools as possible, mostly in secondary and…
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Telecoms in a season of mounting expectations, By Okoh Aihe
By Okoh Aihe Nigerians love to be serenaded and wear appellations as a crown. The politician wants to return to office even when the track record carries the stigma of shame. They promise the people the good things of life but abandon them with empty stomach and a future in destitution. Yet the people praise-sing…