Danger: Gwandu out to tribalize Buhari’ Government

By Samson Osamudiamen

Narrow minded opportunists are trying to rubbish General Buhari's Pan-Nigerian mandate by giving the impression that he has a sectional agenda of Fulani hegemony. One of the opportunists in this regard is Dr. Bashir Gwandu who was fired from the NCC by President Jonathan in 2012 for gross insubordination and blackmail.

Protesters block entrance to MTN office in Edo

'Jola Sotubo

The demonstrators were said to have arrived at the office on Murtala Mohammed Way at about 7am on Monday, April 20, 2015, to protest the recent spate of xenophobic attacks in South Africa, the company’s home country.

Protesters in Benin City, Edo State have barricaded the entrance to the headquarters of telecommunications giant, MTN in the state.

The demonstrators were said to have arrived at the office on Murtala Mohammed Way at about 7am on Monday, April 20, 2015,

Assessing Telecoms in Nigeria: 2010 - 2014

By Patrick O. Ogar

Although it is common to complain of poor service quality against Nigerian telecoms industry, much has been achieved within the period of four years, 2010 – 2014, when Dr. Eugene Juwah became the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).

A voice for local content

By Abdullahi Musa Kaura

The concept of local content has been recurring in Nigeria’s socio-economic jargon for some time. In a layman’s manner of speaking, it refers to the addition of local/domestic variables to the production processes of any given sector of industry. Such variables may include human capital, material resources, financial investment, amongst others.

Telecoms: Another tranche of licenses up for grabs

By Wilson Okah

The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is offering 14 slots of 2 X 5 MHz FDD paired Spectrum band ranging from 2500 – 2570MHz and 2620 to 2690MHz (totalling 2 X 70 MHz) for auction. An Information Memorandum (IM) to guide the proposed auctioning of the 2.6GHz spectrum has been released by the commission and can be accessed on its website.

NCC: Tending Nigeria’s N6.4 trillion vault amidst Ebola

By Ehis Gbubemi

The deregulation of Nigeria’s telecoms sector has had an enormous impact on the economic and social development of the country in the last 15 years. This is both unique and amazing because the attempt to deregulate or liberalise many other sectors have not met with a similar success story like telecoms. To mention just few, the unbundling and privatisation of the electricity sector, the oil and gas industry, the divestment of government shares in many other companies have failed to yield any envisaged transitions, let alone, improvement in performance or service delivery by such institutions. The effort to concession or privatise the Ajaokuta Steel Company has become some sort of jinx, thus stalling progress in a sector regarded as the hub of Nigeria’s industrial dreams for decades.