FG, look into this issue

Date: 2017-06-19

The hope of residents of Ilorin, Kwara State and some other states of the federation covering the North-Central geopolitical zone to enjoy the newly installed Digital Switch Over (DSO) equipment may be dashed due to the quality of the equipment at the Ilorin zone.

Some concerned broadcast engineers who saw the equipment at the Ganmo NTA station described them as obsolete and brought it to public attention. Thus, television viewers are worried.

The digital equipment, installed by a Chinese company, the signal distributor, was reportedly purchased in 1999. It has also been reported that the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) paid the Chinese company about N1.7 billion for the project.

If the equipment is not quickly replaced, it might frustrate the good intention of the current administration to make the zone to meet June deadline for International Telecomes Union (ITU) to switch over from analogue to digital.

The shoddy installation was blown open a few weeks ago when the NBC Director General, Is'haq Moddibo Kawu, who hails from Ilorin, led other management team to inaugurate the NTA Ilorin Digital project.

The NBC had earlier assured Nigerians that the next move was to simultaneously switch on six states drawn from the geopolitical zones in the country.

The switch on digital TV broadcasting in Abuja signalled the gradual disconnect of the analogue broadcasting in Nigeria, a scheme most Nigerians do not have much knowledge about yet.

Disturbed by this development, we are calling on the DG, who is a stakeholder in the project and a highly-respected broadcaster and the information Minister, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, to urgently call the company handling the project to replace the substandard equipment so that the people of the state and the entire zone shall not be robbed of not benefiting from the Digital Switch Over (DSO).

Abdulmalik Oladejo

Baboko, Ilorin.

Source

 

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Abdulrahman Abdulrasak     Fulani     Kwara 2015     Kayode Ibrahim     Kamaldeen Gambari     Lanre Jimoh     Olabimpe Olani     Aliyu Sabi     Muhammad Yahya     Iyeru Grammar School     TETFUND     Osuwa     Umar Yakubu Jaja     Oro Grammar School     Edret Sabi Abel     Saliu Ajia     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Raymond Olaitan     Rueben Parejo     Ijakadi     Mohammed Halidu     Ben Duntoye     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Patience Jonathan     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Radio SBS     Sarah Alade     Onilorin     Mashood Dauda     Ejidongari     Earlyon Technologies     SSUCOEN     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Abiodun Oyedepo     Lukman Adeloyin     Afonja     Saliu Tunde Bello     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Balogin Alanamu     Bola Olukoju     Ilorin South     Lawal Arinola Kudirat     Alaiye     Chemiroy Nigeria Limited     Abdulkarim Adisa     Laolu Saraki     Oloye     Sa\'ad Alanamu     Apado     Kwara State Sports Commission     COVID     Bayer AG     Babatunde Ishola Babaita     Muslimah Entrepreneurship Forum     Saraki     Ridwan Agboola     Abdulkadir Jimoh     Amule     Tescom.kwarastate.gov.ng     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Ibrahim Jawondo     Erubu Oba Zubair     Mazars Consulting     AGILE Programme     Neo Mundo Ltd     Babaloja-General     Musa Aibinu     Kwara Liberation Group     Apata Ajele Secondary School     Maigidasanma     Salihu Yahaya     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Oloriegbe     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Lotus Bank     Hajj     Ibrahim Taiwo Road    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

Click on a word/phrase to read more about it.

Muhammed Aliyu     Kwara State Television     Salau Kabiru Abdullahi     Unilorin     Kawu Baraje     Yusuf Ali     Susan Modupe Oluwole     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Oloriegbe     Eleja     Emir Of Shonga     Haruna Tambiri Mohammed     Convocation Ceremonies     Wale Oladepo     Garba Idris Ajia     Sa\'adu Gambari     Paul Olawoore     Offa Grammer School     Ayobola Ipinlaiye     Musibau Akanji     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     NFAI     Association Of Kwara State Online Media Practitioners     Amina El-Imam     Modupe Oluwole     Kwabes     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Baba Issa Awoye     Col. Taiwo     Special Adviser On Digital Innovation     IQRA College     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Yusuf Badmus     Sidikat Alaya     Iyeru Grammar School     Afetu Of Alabe     Kannike     PPS     Baakini     Zainab Abass     Sadiq Buhari     Kwara Volleyball Association     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     Jide Oyinloye     Ajibola Ademola Julius     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Funmilayo Oniwa     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Curfew     Yusuf Lanre Badmas     United Nigeria Congress Party     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Taiwo Joseph     Yusuf Amuda Aluko     Offa Poly     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Popo-Igbonna     Musa Abdullahi     Oluwole Dupe     Hassan Oyeleke     Sobi Hill     Sulyman Atolagbe Alege     Mufutau Olatinwo     Emmanuel Bello     IESA     Awwal Jawondo     Ajike People Support Centre     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Olaoye B. Felix     Towoju     CACOVID     Saidu Isa     Ilorin Like-Minds     Sulyman Abdulkareem     ER-KANG Mining     Chikanda