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.

Mansurat Amuda-Kannike     Saka Saadu     Principal Private Secretary     Post-utme     Sunset Workers     Dapo Teni Nig Enterprise     Odogun Olushola Gabriel     Shuaib Abdulkadir     Abdulrahman Abdulrazaq     KW-GIS     Tafidan Kaiama     Ndama Al-hassan     Wole Oke     Aliyu Alhassan     Saheed Akinwumi     Sidikat Akaje     Ilorin Talaka Parapo     Madawaki Of Ilorin     Abatemi-Usman     Y.A. Abdulkareem     Alapado     Budo Egba     Bisi Oyeleke     Opolo Global Innovation Limited     AbdulHakeem Ajibola Akanbi     Tafida Of Ilorin     Bahago     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Abdulrazaq Akorede     Dunmade     Abdulganiyu AbdulAzeez     Yinka Aluko     Kwara Poly     PPS     Aro Yahaya     Awili Pedro     Mohammed Lawal     Ibrahim Mohammed     Theophilus Oyebiyi     Eleyele     Abdulrauf Yusuf     Hijaab     Raliat Elelu-Habeeb     Muhammad Sirajo Aliyu     Olohungbebe     JAAC     Shehu Raheem Adaramaja     Oba Sulaiman Asude     Cornelius Adebayo     Javed Khan     Kunle Okeowo     Aasiyat Bello Oyedepo     Saad Omo Iya     IYA YUSUF     Olota Of Odo-Owa     Halimah Perogi     Bola Tinubu     CT Ayeni     Oluwarotimi Boluwatife Adenike     Government High School (GHS), Adeta     Olukotun Of Ikotun     Abubakar Kawu Baraje     Folashade Omoniyi     Nigerian Supreme Council For Islamic Affairs     Dele Belgore     Unicontinental Construction Company     Toun Okewale-Sonaiya     Oro Grammar School     Bashir Adigun     Afusat Nike Ibrahim     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     NIPOGA     Afolabi-Oshatimehin     Sola Saraki Educational Foundation     Abdulrahman Abdulrasaq     Kwara State Television (KWTV)     Iyabo Adewuyi    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Kupchi Hosea Maxwell     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Jimba Babatunde     Saheed Popoola     Hikmah AbdulKareem     Bashir Adigun     Hijaab     Bayo Mohammed Onimode     YAKOOYO     Reuben Paraje     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     Peter Amogbonjaye     Aminu Ado Bayero     Kayode Oyin Zubair     Sabi     New Naira Notes     March 18     Logun     Abdulkadir Akanbi-Oke     Medinat Folorunsho Salman     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Funmilayo Isiaka Oniwa     Muhammadu Buhari     David Oyerinola Adedunmoye     ASUU     Ojo Isekuse     Sango-UITH Road     COVID-19 Palliatives     Hussein Oloyede     Okanlawon Musa     Gbenga Adebayo     Eghe Igbinehi     Assayomo     Kwara Muslim Pilgrims Welfare Board     Oladimeji Thompson     Haruna Olawale Sulaiman     Abdulraufu Mustapha     11th Galadima     Bankole Omishore     Nigeria Customs Service     Sardauna Of Ilorin     Quareeb Islamic Association     Jawondo     New Nigeria People’s Party     Olusin Of Ijara Isin     Baba Issa Awoye     Obasanjo     Abdulrosheed Okiki     Yusuf Mubarak     Saad Omo Iya     Elections     Razak Atunwa     Kwara State Governor     Samuel Olusegun Adedayo     Erubu Oba Zubair     Femtech     General Tunde Idiagbon International Airport Ilorin     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Offa Poly     April 11     Kassim Babamale     Lucky Omoluwa     Salary     Offa Metropolitan Club     A.O. Belgore     Ahmed Shuaib Buranga     Yusuf Arowosaye     Kwha.gov.ng     Oba Abdulraheem     Ibrahim Abikan     Democracy Day     Olohungbebe     Ghali Alaaya     Trade Lenda SME Fair     COVID     Maryam A. Garuba     Ahmad Lawan