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.

JSSCE     Ilorin Emirate Staff Association     Buari Edun     Ali Ahmad     Abubakar Suleiman     Amoyo     Temitope Ogunbanke     TESCOM     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     Baba Idris     Eleja     Lateef Alagbonsi     Olatunji Ibrahim     Umar Danladi Shero     Gbugbu     Bola Ahmed Tinubu     Yusuf Amuda Abubakar     Dagbalodo     Ilorin Airport     Toyin Falola     Tanke Flyover Bridge     Saidu Yaro Musa     Ahmed Saidu Rufai     Pacify Labs     Abdulraheem Yusuf     Asa LGEA School     Umar Gunu     International Vocational Centre     Titus Suberu-Ajibola     Local Government     Yaru     KWASSIP     AbdulFatai Adeniyi Dan-Kazeem     Charcoal     Ibrahim Gambari     Tope Daramola     Abatemi-Usman     Ophthalmological Society Of Nigeria     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Al-Hikmah Radio     Iyiola Oyedepo     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     Bello Abubakar     Bank Of Industry     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Ajayi Okasanmi     Kwara North     Abdulwahab Ololele     Kaiama     Fola Consultant     Omar Gambari     Taofeek Ibraheem     Valsolar     Amada Jidda     NFAI     Kwara Metro Park     Wahab Issa     CCB     Azeez Bello     Is\'haq Modibbo Kawu     Khairat Gwadabe     Paul Odama     Nurudeen Muhammed     Abdulganiy Abimbola Abdussalam     Florence Saraki     Adamu Jemilat-Baki     Abdulquowiyu Olododo     Amuda Aluko     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Kwara Pdp     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     Ayobami Seriki     Egbewole     Lanre Issa-Onilu     Orisun Igbomina     Kayode Laro     Alabi Olayemi Abdulrazak    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Temi Kolawole     Ambassador Kayode Laro     Isiaka Danmeromu     Abiodun Musa Aibinu     Face Masks     Oyedun Juliana Funke     Patience Jonathan     Bayer AG     Mahmud Durosinlohun Atiku     Waheed Ibrahim     Monkey Pox     Usman Yunusa     SSA Youth Engagement     Federal Road Maintenance Agency     KWASAA     Nigerian Correctional Service     Abdullahi Saadudeen Alikinla     Oke Sunna     Olatunde Jare     Olubukola Kifayat Adedeji     Galland Marcias     Okin Biscuits     Yomi Adeboye     Shettima Of Ilorin     Saidu Kawu     Democracy Day     Abegunde Goke     Ekiti     Abdullahi Imam Abdullahi     Dagbalodo     AbdulRauf Keji     Najim Yaasin     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Adamu Attah     IHS Towers     Folorunsho Erubu     Issa Memunat Moyosore     Oko     Okeose Christian Cementary     Suleiman Ajadi     Baba-Isale     AbdulRasaq Abdulmajeed Alaro     Ogidi-Oloje     Sa\'adatu Modibbo-Kawu     Road Transport Employers Association Of Nigeria     Isa Aremu     Aliyu U. Tilde     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Saka Balikis Kehinde     Biliaminu Aliu     Edret Sabi Abel     Iyabo Adisa Ibiyeye     Ibrahim Kayode Adeyemi     Bankole Omishore     Photo News     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Sheu Ndanusa Usman     PAACO-PCL Consortium     Olohungbebe     Abdulraufu Mustapha     Jebba     Offa Metropolitan Club     Ibrahim Bio     KWASIEC     Admiralty Villa     Apado     Sarafadeen Kayode Akorede     Amada Jidda     Laboratory-to-Product     Mamatu Abdullahi     KWACOBPA     Okiki     Binta Abubakar Mora     Sola Saraki University     Yaru     JAMB     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency