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As he walked across the stage to address the gathering, the young MC joked on Monday morning that Prof. Joash Amupitan is one man nobody would really want to envy in Nigeria today. This was beyond a joke, which the INEC Chairman soaked in with some equanimity. In less than three months, his agency, which […]
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The NCC Device Checker came on stream on October 7, 2026. Although it was expressly stated that all SIM-enabled devices already connected before the date were automatically verified, with no action needed from the user, I still took my devices through the process of verification by dialing *315#. Here is the result returned for both […]
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The past two weeks have been most consequential for AI, which remained at the centre of discourse in very high places. Oh, you are saying, “How can AI have life when it has no blood in its veins?” You tell me: how many people with barrels of blood in their system, no matter their placement […]
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The NCC programme wasn’t part of my schedule last week but the insistence of a young employee drew me to the Hilton, venue of the programme, and I left very appreciative that I found my way there. Sometimes, you need to clear your schedule to do certain things. This was one of them. As I […]
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The hefty fine of $940m placed on Meta in New Mexico has retained Social Media in the centre of unwanted discourse and concerned efforts by jurisdictional authorities to deal with a menace that threatens today as well as the future of nations since the young ones are mostly affected in a world that seems to be […]
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This is one question that has refused to take leave of me at the moment, and the answers don’t look as simple as the question. The reason is that technology grows so fast, sometimes more than the speed of light, hyperbolically, that we are either left behind or simply fail to notice the failings in a […]
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I do not know whether to say the eagle has landed for the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) or simply to say that a convoluted process has simply been resolved in the manner of deus ex machina. But whichever will apply, the fact that the DSO was launched on Wednesday June 17, 2026, under the Big Picture Initiative, […]
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Nigeria is not at the FIFA World Cup 2026 holding in Mexico, Canada and the United States. This is already well known because failure cannot easily be assuaged with momentary exhilaration or euphoric response to a mundial that has already earned the status of the biggest footballing event ever, 48 national teams playing in three countries. […]
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Writing about the fresh aspirations of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) on the Digital Switch-Over (DSO) and FreeTV being prepped for launch on June 17, 2026, we declared our support for the regulator in choosing the satellite option but warned that the process needs to be more transparent and inclusive. Before the afternoon of the very […]
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The gathering of stakeholders last week in Lagos to look at policy support for the telecommunications industry, suddenly communicated the painful reality that Nigeria has continued to operate the sector with a document of over two and a half decades, whose relevance has since been overwhelmed by the multiplicity of technological developments and nuanced growth in […]
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