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.

Kwara State Television     Ayodele Shittu     Akanbi-Oke     Adegoke Bamidele     Ilorin Emirate     Sulu Babaita Isiaka     Galland Marcias     Balikis Jawondo     Sheikh Hamzat Yusuf Ariyibi     IESA     Abdulmajeed Wahab     Ohoro Of Shao     Ibrahim Bio     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Aliyu Sabi     Simeon Ajibola     Centre For Digital Economy     VADA     Salaudeen Oyewale     Biliaminu Aliu     KWTV     Lanwa     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Usman Alkali Baba     Olomu Of Omu-Aran     Saliu Alamoyo     Abioye Bello     Bamikole Omishore     Kamaldeen Kehinde     Abubakar Usman Jos     UTME     Code Of Conduct Tribunal     Onikijipa     Garba Idris Ajia     Mohammed Yisa     John Mayokun Dada     Ifelodun     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants Ltd     Ademola Kiyesola     NITDA     Seed Technologies     Iliasu     Esinniobiwa Quareeb     Olabode George Towoju     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Maryam Nurudeen     Mukhtar Shagaya     Just Event Online     ARMTI     Oba Abdulkadir La\'aro     Adeleke Ogungbe     Government High School Adeta     Saliu Ajia     Tafida Of Ilorin     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     Rachael Obisesan     Fatai Adeniyi Garba     Ajuloopin     SUBEB     Federal Polytechnic Offa     Oke-Oyi     Suleiman Ajadi     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Kwara Consultative Forum     Al-Adaby     Taofik Abdulkareem Babaita     Kale Ayo     Nagode     Kwara State Council Of Chiefs     New Naira Notes     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Jalala     Funmilayo Mohammed     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Hassanat Bello     Elections     Jare Olatundun    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Saka Isau     Toyin Saraki     Funmilayo Zubair     Saeedat Aliyu     Mohammed Alabi Lawal     AGILE Programme     Third Estate     Ilorin East/South Federal Constituency     Oja-Oba     Ijagbo     Folashade Omoniyi     Emir Of Lafiagi     Ali Ahmad     Sheikh Ridhwanullah El-ilory     Abdulmumini AbdulRazaq     Ibraheem Abdullateef     Jelili Yusuf     Yekeen Alabi     Issa Manzuma     Bolakale Kawu Agaka     Peter Obi     Standard Organization Of Nigeria     Femi Oladiji     Al-Hikmah Radio     Split Diamond Interchange     Student Learning Support Helpline     Abdulkadir Remi Hawawu     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     KFA     Coronavirus     Adesoye College     Alao Ayotunde     Flights To Ilorin     Countryside Emerging Leaders Fellowship     Aiyedun     Oasis Muslim Care Foundation     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     JSSCE     Olabimpe Olani     Wakilin Mata Lafiagi     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Apado     NaAllah     Toyin Olayinka Tejidini     Mahe Abdulkadir     Harrison Osauwagboe     Akeem Lawal     Babatunde Idiagbon     Bolaji Nagode     Alikinla     Isaac Gbenle     Tunji Moronfoye     Saka Keji     Col. Ibrahim Taiwo     Jamiu Oyawoye     Academic Staff Union Of Universities     Olupako Of Share     Olabanji Orilonishe     Ayo Salami     Moses Adekanye     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Senior Staff Union Of Colleges Of Education     Sobi     Abdulrasheed Lafia     Idowu Aremu     Khadijat Ayoola Yusuf     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Olabode Towoju     Ilorin South Constituency     Isau     Admiralty Villa     A.G.F Abdulrasaq     Mujtabah Bature     Saliu Alamoyo     Kulende     Saliu Mustapha     Umar Danladi Shero