Telecommunications Consultant

As MTN Nigeria celebrates 25 years, I find myself reflecting not only on the scale of the company’s journey, but also on a significant chapter of my own professional journey within its ecosystem. I have been privileged to spend more than seven years learning, building, managing and contributing to projects within the MTN network. My journey with the MTN project began in April 2019, when I joined Huawei as an Access Network Engineer working on MTN’s FTTH deployment.

President Cyril Ramaphosa has sent the Regulation of Interception of Communications and Provision of Communication-Related Information (RICA) Bill back to parliament to fix certain aspects of the surveillance provisions in the law that breaches people’s right to privacy, unhappy with the legislative fixes that had been put in place by parliament. Parliament should use this impetus to enact further improvements to the increasingly deficient RICA.