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.