Terror in new places: Are Nigerians thinking ahead?
The near-synchronised bombings of the premises of media houses in Abuja and Kaduna on April 26 must serve as another crude awakening to the possibility that terrorism has assumed the status of “normal” crime in Nigeria.
The attack on media houses is clearly another layer in the “onion of terror” we spoke about in this column last August (Terrorism: Has Nigeria permanently lost her innocence?). Until now, the news has fixated around mass killings occurring in places of worship, police stations, schools, hospitals, banks, parade grounds, the open streets, parks and other public and private recreational facilities.

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How not to support telecommunications growth
By Emeka Oparah
As an avid watcher of the telecommunications industry over the past 10 years, one is often tempted to reminisce over the journey so far considering where we were before 2001 when the GSM companies rolled out their networks and services in Nigeria. I do, however, believe that the industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), and the journalists who report the industry are doing an excellent job of it. So there is really nothing more to add than the obvious cliché that Nigeria has indeed come a long way from about 500,000 telephone lines in 2001 to nearly 90 million as at March 2012.

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