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.

Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Agboola Abdulraheem     Olabode Towoju     Undergraduate Bursary     Yemi Osinbajo     Ganmo Power Sub-Station     Kwara Poly     Samuel Elizabeth Keatswa     SSA Youth     Iliasu     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Bilikis Oladimeji     Sherif Shagaya     Odolaye Aremu     20 Billion Bond     Saliu Oluwole     College Of Arabic And Islamic Legal Studies     Taofik Abdulkareem     Okanlawon Taiwo     JSSCE     Wasiu Onidugbe     Ilorin Curfew     KWASAA     Dasuki Belgore     Henry Olaosebikan     Apaokagi     Sabi     New Nigeria People’s Party     Funmilayo Mohammed     Students Union Government     Hajj     Gbugbu     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Folorunsho Erubu     Eruku     Orire     Bola Sagaya     Iyiola Oyedepo     Nigeria Customs Service     Medview Airlines     UITH     Kayode Laro     Yusuf AbdulRasheed     AbdulGaniyu Kareem     UNILORIN Alumni     Temitope Ogunbanke     New Naira Notes     Ariyo     Shehu Jimoh     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Abdulrazaq Magaji     Shoprite     Ilorin Water Reticulation     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Binta Abubakar Mora     Abubakar Suleiman     Yaru     Emir Of Shonga     Ishola Abdullahi     Labour Party     Press Release     Rasheed Jimoh     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     KWASIEC     Tunji Olawuyi     Ridwan Agboola     Omoniyi Ayinla     Mohammed Yahaya Barki     Salihu Jibril Garbi     Alfa Yahaya Road     Hassan Abdulazeez Elewu     General Hospital, Ilorin     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Simon Sayomi     Yakub Ali-Agan     Ambassador Kayode Laro    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Ijakadi     KWIRS     Balikis Jawondo     Joseph Bamigboye     Mohammed Jimoh Faworaja     Hassan A. Saliu     Offa Grammer School     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Salihu Yahaya     Omotoso     Agbarigidoma     Abiodun Jacob Ajiboye     Yekini Adio     First Lady     Ishak Mohammed Sabi     Roheemat Hammed     Sango-UITH Road     Dele Momodu     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Mahfouz Adedimeji     Sodiya     Niguel Gallando Marcias     Azeez Salawu     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Sabi     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Okoolowo     Saeedat Aliyu     Abubakar Aliagan     Madawaki     Abdulmalik Bashir Mopelola Risikatullahi     Sanusi Abubakar     Segun Ogunsola     Abraysports FC     Sulyman Buhari     Tsado Manman     Ifelodun     Markaz Arabic And Islamic Training Institute, Agege     Okin Malt     Sola Saraki University     Elerinjare     Kulende-UITH     Olajumoke Monsura Gafar     Olatunde Jare     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Saad Omo Iya     Bisi Oyeleke     Amina El-Imam     Shettima Of Ilorin     Oko Erin     March 18     Yusuf Lawal     Tunji Oyawoye     Oba Of Jebba     Adeola Abraham     Folashade Omoniyi     Abubakar B.M     Olatunji Moronfoye     Omu Aran     Gbenga Adebayo     Adisa Logun     Ashiru     Gbenga Awoyale     Jimoh Bashir     Plat Technologies     Omoniyi     Omotosho     Folorunsho Alao     Minimum Wage     Shola Odetundun     Segun Adeniyi     Samuel Adedoyin     EndSARS     Face Masks     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Summit University     Twitter