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The 2024 Paris Olympics Games ended on Sunday in a blaze of glory. The French gave their elevated understanding of beauty and creativity while Hollywood gave a little snippet of what awaits the world in Los Angeles in four years’ time.
All the while, watching the Nigerian contingent in Paris reminded me of the Beijing 2008 Summer Olympics, not because of the sprint master, Usain Bolt or the American swimmer that enjoys water more than fish, Michael Phelps, but because of a peculiar Nigerian story which ace sports journalist, Onochie Anibeze, we fondly call coach, shared with us.
At the same time that the Olympics was in full swing in Paris, some Nigerian officials were meeting with representatives of the International Telecommunications Union in Abuja. That meeting would have gone unnoticed but for some very little news that filtered out of the meeting location at Mbora in the Federal Capital Territory.
“For over twenty years, ITU and our partners in the wilder global regulatory community have made enormous progress in analysing, mapping and understanding the evolving role that regulation plays in society and in economies.
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