Understanding the NCC, NESREA face-off

By Terry Imasogie

Consistent with its uncomplimentary ratings and taking into consideration such indices as cost, support infrastructure, security, approval time, land tenor, and a couple of others, investment in Nigeria is about the most risky in the world.

The number of bureaucratic hurdles constituted by motley regulatory, pre-shipment, security, immigration, customs and excise, health, drug control, food and drug administration, standards and countless other agencies that importers and exporters alike have to cross are mind-boggling.

Have you ported?

Written by Wole Olaoye

One of the best things to happen to consumers of telecommunication services is the introduction of porting by the National Communications  Commis-sion (NCC).

The dogon turanci of that development is what has now come to be known as Mobile Number Portability. At first, consu-mers were cynical. That is understandable in our environment where pro-mises come by the truckload but delivery perches pre-cariously on a flat-tyred bicycle.

Mobile Number Porta-bility was introduced with a promise to provide consumers with the option of changing their network at any time while retaining their numbers.