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. I nearly reached for a magnifying glass incase my reading glasses were getting too weak to enable me … Read more
The responses to the tariff adjustment for telecom operators on January 20, 2025, by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), clearly demonstrate that Nigerians are not a conquered people yet. That, in spite of how the socio-economic conditions have impacted them harshly to endure subhuman living, they can still find their voices from the … Read more
New telecom tariffs are here, and this is official. The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) said Monday night that it has granted a 50 percent tariff adjustment to the industry operators for industry sustenance and for continuing service delivery. This is the first raise since 2013. Although the operators had mounted a sustained campaign, demanding for … Read more
I am an unrepentant apostle of telecom tariff hike. Some guys will nearly put my head on a chopping board for this, as it looks almost surreal for anybody in his right senses to advocate for an upward cost review of products and services at a time so many people are being pushed … Read more
The tech industry promises to be very interesting this year. It will bring excitment, it will also inflict pain. Nations will go after each other and try to sabotage each other’s growth where possible. Others will expand growth and dominance and even extend it to conquest as manifest display of strength. The weaklings will lap … Read more
As the year 2024 raced to an indeterminate conclusion, there was some theatre of the absurd playing out in the telecommunications industry. Tariff occupied centre stage. There was a reported tariff hike in the industry which was immediately denied by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), also reportedly. Just before the final bell could ring on … Read more
I have had the unenviable opportunity of living in two states and the Federal Capital Territory in the past three months. All the time, my phone is my most prized item because it connects me to my base and my family. It is really cool to be able to reach out and be reached at … Read more
Read full article Let the NBC be – By Okoh Aihe on TheNewsGuru. I am not about to write an elegy for the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) yet. Afterall, the regulator of the broadcast industry is not dead although it suffered jeopardy recently. Read full article Let the NBC be – By Okoh Aihe on … Read more
This is not the kind of material I want to be writing at this time but necessity has placed it upon me to do so, in case somebody finds it useful and may want to act for the good of society. Writing technology can sometimes place the writer at that hyper level of fantasy where … Read more