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.

Nigeria Computer Society     Balogun Fulani     Muhammad Mustapha Suleiman     IESA     Hauwa Nuru     JAMB     Minimum Wage     Shao     Saeedat Aliyu     Femi Gbajabiamila     Halimat Yusuf     Paul Olawoore     Abdullahi Samari     Taibat Ayinke Ahmed     Umaru Saro     Diagnostic Centre     Modibbo Kawu     Olatinwo     Saadu Yusuf     Mazars Consulting     Ilesha Gwanara Road     ER-KANG     Ebun-Olu Adegboruwa     Shaaba Lafiagi     Dar-Al-Handasah Consultants     NIRSAL     Henry Makinwa     Sheikh Alimi     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Umar Saro     Leke Ogungbe     Bello Taoheed Abubakar     Emir Of Ilorin     Tafidan Kaiama     Joshua Adeyemi Adimula     Vasolar Consultoria     Buhari     Oko Erin     Owo Arugbo     Modupe Oluwole     Durosinlohun Kawu     Abdulmumin Yinka Ajia     Kwara United     Muhammad Toyin Sanusi     Oko-Olowo     Aliyu Salihu     Shettima     Omotosho     Facebook     Esinrogunjo     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Ibrahim Abduquadri Abikan     Yomi Adeboye     Ilorin Amusement Park     Adedayo Yusuf Abdulkareem     Kola Adesina     Olateju Lukman     IFK     General Hospital, Offa     Waziri Yakubu Gobir     Voices Of Tomorrow     RTEAN     Aliyu Muhammed     Fatima Abolore Jimoh     Asa LGEA School     Adeleke Ogungbe     Peter Obi     Roheemat Hammed     Kwara Liberation Group     Yahaya Seriki Gambari     Umar Ayinla Saro     Abubakar Imam     Lasiele Alabi Yahaya     Raymond Olaitan     Abdul-Rahoof Bello     Abdulrauf Aliyu     Bayo Mohammed Onimode    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Lotus Bank     Hassan A. Saliu     Muslim Cementary     Niyi Osundare     Fulani     Amos Bajeh     Onilorin     SUBEB     Zulu Gambari     Oyawoye     General Hospital, Offa     Oke Sunna     Ado Ibrahim     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     KWSIEC     Onilupeju Of Ilupeju     Isiaka Gold     Oba-Solagberu     Wahab Kunle Shittu     General Hospital     Gbadeyan Gbadura Yomi     IsDB     Trade Lenda SME Fair     Mohammed Abduraheem     Ekiti     Bello Bature     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Ebola     Local Government Pension Board     Peter Obi     Bio Ibrahim     Ridwan Agboola     Ojo Isekuse     Olatunji Moronfoye     Abubakar Atiku     Adanla-Irese     Age AbdulKareem     2017 Budget     Oke-Oyi     Chief Imam Of Lafiagi     Muftau Akanbi Oke     Oyedepo     Bola Shagaya     Florence Saraki     Nigeria Association Of Women Journalists     Code Of Conduct Bureau     Nigeria Computer Society     Suleiman Idris     Oba David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     Christopher Odetunde     Oniwa     Mohammed Saidu     Hamidu Olowo     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Tafida     Yusuf Babatunde Abdulwahab     Revenue Court     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Kisra     Amos Sayo     Saidu Kawu     Abdulkadir Bolakale Sakariyah     Jimoh Olusola Imam     Aliyu Salihu     Firdaos Amasa     Ramadan     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Abdulrazaq Sanni     Aminu Ado Bayero     Saba Jibril     Ibrahim Abiodun     Nnazua     Olaosebikan     Isa Aremu     Public Holiday     Buhari     Falokun-Oja