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.

Ishaq Salman     United Nigeria Airline     Kwara State Geographic Information Service     Kwara Volleyball Association     Fatimat Saliu     Justina Oha     Omotosho     Owo Isowo     Offa Grammer School     Ayo Adeyemi     All Confederation Of Principals Of Secondary Schools     IPSAS     Goodluck Jonathan     Aremu Bose Deborah     Jeunkunu-Malete-Bani     Sulyman Abdulkareem     Abdulrahman Abdulrazak     Aisha Abodunrin Ibrahim     Minister     Olayinka Oladapo Jogunola     Ogidi-Oloje     Folorunsho Alao     Okedare     Ubandawaki     GANZY     Taofeeq Olateju     Chief Imam Of Omu-Aran     Haliru Dantoro     Niyi Ogundiran     Special Agro-Industrial Hub     Akande Idowu Ayoola Muhammed     IQRA College     Lanwa     Volunteers Of Ilorin Community And The Emirate     Tope Daramola     Bukola Ajikobi     Shao     Kemi Adeosun     Adeleke Ogungbe     Sidikat Alaya     Bayo Ajia     Alapado     Ayotunde Emmanuel Alao     Bolaji Nagode     Olohungbebe     Saraki     Coalition Of Kwara North Groups     Aso Ofi     Funmilayo Braithwaite     Muhammed Taofeeq Abdulrazaq     Law School Scholarship     Segun Abifarin     AGM Professional Services     Yashikira     Yusuf Amuda Gobir     General Hospital, Offa     Kwara 2019     Yahaya Oloriegbe     Nigerian Medical Association     Suleiman Rotimi Iliasu     Ramat Oganija     NITDA     Dankaka     Maimunat Oloriegbe     Alimi Abdulrazaq     Igosun     Bamidele Adegoke Oladimeji     Samuel Adedoyin     Ibrahim Jawondo     Khairat Gwadabe     Tsaragi-Share     HAMFAT Clinic And Maternity     Olumide Daniel Ibitoye     Diagnostic Centre     Saka Onimago     Oye Tinuoye     Oba Abdulraheem    

Cloud Tag: What's trending

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

Mohammed Ajia Ibrahim     Offorjama     Kamoru Kadiri     Amina Susa\'a De Ahmed     Aliyu Salihu     Mustapha Olanipekun     Yusuf Zulu-Gambari     Rice Farmers Association Of Nigeria     Sarah Alade     Kwara State Coalition Of Business And Professional Associations     Habeeb Abdullahi Al-Ilory     AbdulHamid Adi     Abdullahi G. Mohammad     Suraj Tunji Oyewale     Dogara     Garuba Alikinla Shittu     Kale Belgore     Yahaya Jibril Usman     National Information Technology Development Agency     Olaitan Adefila     Okeose Christian Cementary     Salihu Yahaya     Okedare     Awili Pedro     Folorunsho Alao     Siraj Oyewale     Ladi Hassan     Sabi     Wahab Agbaje     Ibraheem Adeola Katibi     Economic And Financial Crimes Commission     HYPPADEC     Adamu Atta     Ajibola Ademola Julius     Saliu Ajia     Ayekale     QuickWin     Bilikisu Oniyangi     Kunle Suleiman     Micheal Imodu-Ganmo Road     Moshood Bakare     National Association Of Nigerian Students     Issa Manzuma     Abdullahi Adisa Akodudu     V.O. Abioye     Kwara State Fish Farmers Association     AbdulGafar Tosho     Amos Bajeh     University Road     SARS     Maryam Nurudeen     SSA Youth     Olatunji Abdulmumeen     Moronfoye     A.O. Belgore     Oko-Erin     Offa     Quareeb Islamic Association     ARMTI     Alfa Belgore     Government House     Omotosho     AbdulRahman Saad     ITP     Opaleke Bukola Iyabo     Asiwaju Bola Tinubu     Funmi Salau     Mahee Abdulkadir     Mohammed Katsina Ahmed     Olanrewju Okanlawon Musa     Adijat Adebiyi     Kayode Oyin-Zubair     IHS Towers     Colleges Of Education Academic Staff Union     Diagnostic Centre     Isin     Adesoye