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It doesn’t come as a surprise any more that the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria, BON, meeting which took place last week in Abuja became a political theatre of suggestions. The organisation had itself to blame for the torrents of suggestions that came its way. BON was responsible for the rain that drenched it, having been very […]

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TIRMS, which is an acronym for Telecoms Identity Risk Management System, has hardly enjoyed any special attention in the daily discourse of telecom regulation. Not even a sustained mention until the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, introduced it into the telecom lexicon last week.  Much unlike other regulatory measures – like a huge telecom license fee, a […]

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It was not a moment of reminiscences or retrospection. Not even a recall. Just a normal telephone call. Two women were chatting away, with the one sitting not far away from me not really mindful whether anybody heard or not. It was her business; not another man’s business.  But you know, people can really make calls, […]

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Venerated playwright, Professor Femi Osofisan, once said in one of his books, there is safety in numbers. This is very true of human beings who would always find solace and security with each other but equally more so in subscription business where the subscriber base remains very vital in terms of returns on investment. A good […]

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The telecommunications industry opened with a bang in early 2000 after a snail-walk in the previous years of political uncertainties and economic decisions that were at best tentative. The industry was not only deregulated but phone ownership was so democratised that the development mocked previous assertions that telephones were for the rich. It was the birth […]

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The broadcast regulator, the National Broadcasting Commission, NBC, is planning a review of the sixth edition of the Nigeria Broadcasting Code, and has sent out a notice to various stakeholders, asking them to ‘speak now’ in order to ‘help shape the new Nigeria Broadcasting Code.’ One of the final lines is particularly very interesting. ‘Let us […]

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