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.

ANCOPPS     Apaokagi     Yusuf Abdulwahab     Saka Abimbola Isau     Quran     Katibi Ibraheem Adeola     Afolayan     Sheikh Ridhwanullah     Valsolar Consortium     Ndakene     Moses Afolayan     Asa LGEA School     Lawyers Unite Against Corruption     Harmony Holdings     Aliyu Muhammad Saifudeen     Emmanuel Olatunji Adesoye     Ishola Moses Abiodun     Facebook     Ballah     Mumeen Lah     Amoyo     Kwarareports     TIC     Omotosho     Sa\'adu Salau     Olokoba Abdullahi Ayinla     Senate     Kwara State Football Association     07039448763     Ilorin.Info     Hijab     Olusegun Adeniyi     Mumini Ishola Hanafi     Anilelerin     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     Kwara State Health Insurance Agency     Ike Ekweremadu     Olaosebikan     Yekini Adio     Alao Ayotunde     Iliasu     Ahmad Uthman     Bolaji Abdullahi     Abdulkarim Adisa     Esinrogunjo     Salihu S. Yaru     Hamidat Sulyman-Yusuf     Ado Bayero     Bashiru Makama     Ibrahim Sulu Gambari     Oniyangi Kunle Sulaiman     Oro Grammar School Old Students Association     Kayode Ogunlowo     Post Utme     Al-Ilory     Folorunsho Alao     Ajibola Saliu Ajia     Yusuf Lawal     Olatunde Michaels     Saidu Isa     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Mujtabah Bature     Mike Omotosho     Balogun-Ojomu     Raji Ayodele Kamaldeen     Prince Sunday Fagbemi     Sheriff Olanrewaju     Hussein Olokooba     Bello Oyedepo     Oyun     Kwara State Governor     Fatimat Saliu     Clara Nwachukwu     Ubandawaki     Yakub Ali-Agan     Bank Of Industry     Abdul Jimoh Mohammed    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

TIIDELab     V.O. Abioye     Ramadhan     Ajakaye     Olatunde Jare     Christopher Ayeni     Al-Hikmah University     Hussein Olokooba     NNPP     CKNG     Omoniyi     Bamidele Adegoke     Donatus Ejidike     ASUU     Earlyon Technologies     Oyin-Zubair     Abdulrasheed Akogun     Waheed Ibrahim     Arca Santa     Kwara NIPR     Federal College Of Education (Special), Afon     Ndakene     Yusuf Arowosaye     Damilola Yusuf     2017 Budget     Kwara 2019     Rotimi Atere     Wahab Kunle Shittu     Muhammed Danjuma     Balogun Gambari     Ijagbo     Saliu Shola Taofeek     Halidu Danbaba     Oke-Oyi     Laduba     Babajide Ajayi     Yahaya A Paniyaro     Ilorin General Hospital     Hydro-electric Power Producing Areas Development Commission     Muazam Nayaya     Seni Saraki     Wahab Isa     Ayeyemi Sulaiman     T And K FOODS     C2c@kwarastate.gov.ng     Saliu Ajia     Saliu Alamoyo     Ahmed Alhasssan     Age AbdulKareem     Isaac Gbenle     Ramat Oganija     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     Ministry Of Women Affairs And Social Development     Abdulmutalib Shittu     AbdulKareem Yusuf Danhawa     Mutawali Of Ilorin     Valsolar Consortium     Afolayan     Salihu S. Yaru     Federal Neuro-Psychiatric Hospital     Ahmed Bolaji Nagode     Sadiq Umar     Azeez Bello     Olawuyi     Babs Iwarere     Summit University     Abubakar Atiku     Musa Aibinu     Okin Biscuit     Michael Nzekwe     The Herald     Adesina Simon Sodiya     Eleja     Durbar Festival     AbdulRahman Saad     Pius Abioje     Quarry Royal Valley