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The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, at a meeting with the Broadcasting PHOTO: Twitter The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed, says the Federal Government is not destroying the broadcasting ecosystem with the amendments made to the National Broadcasting Code. x The minister said this while reacting to criticisms in certain quarters that some of the amendments in the code would be counter-productive and prevent fo...

Digital Switch Over: Nigeria will realise $1 billion from spectrum sale – Minister The federal government has set April 29 for the second phase of the transition to digital broadcasting. 2 min read The Minister of Information and Culture, Lai Mohammed, says over $1 billion would accrue to the government from the sale of the spectrum after the completion of the Digital Switch Over (DSO). The minister stated this on Thursday in Abuja when he featured on the News Agency of Nigeri...

Punch Newspapers Sections Published 14 March 2021 The Presidential Implementation Committee on Digital Switch Over (Digiteam) says it was starved of funds by the government after it was established in 2012. Chairman of Digiteam, Mr Edward Amana, a critical stakeholder in the process of the nation’s transition from analogue to digital broadcasting, stated this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday. He said the committee was not funded to carry out its assigned roles in th...

Olawale Ajimotokan in Abuja The federal government has rolled out the time table for switching off analogue signals on televisions and the transition to full digital platforms across the country. The Minister of Information and Culture, Mr. Lai Mohammed, and the Acting Director General of National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), Prof. Amstrong Idachaba, disclosed this yesterday at a press briefing on the time table for the Phase 2 of Digital Switch Over (DSO), in Nigeria. Idachaba, who provided...

The federal government has rolled out the time table for switching off analogue signals on televisions and the transition to full digital platforms across the country.

Vanguard News We will support FG to fight insecurity ― PDP governors On ***As Tambuwal says no PDP governor contemplating leaving party By Dirisu Yakubu – Abuja Governors elected on the platform of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Thursday, pledged support to federal government’s effort to stem the tide of growing security concern in the country. Sokoto state governor and chairman of PDP Governors’ Forum, Aminu Tambuwal stated this at the end of a meeting of the governors held at the...

Tokyo Olympics gets IOC-funded Chinese coronavirus jab On   Competitors at this year’s Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics and the 2022 Beijing Winter Games will be offered coronavirus vaccines purchased from China, Olympic chief Thomas Bach announced Thursday in a significant move for the holding of the Covid-delayed Tokyo Games. The Chinese Olympic Committee have made “an offer to make additional vaccine doses available to participants for Tokyo 2020 and Beijing 2022”, Bach said. “The IO...

Vanguard News Kindly Share This Story: Lai Mohammed The Minister of Information and Culture, Alhaji Lai Mohammed has assured that no state will be left out of the Digital Switch Over (DSO) – the transition from analogue to digital broadcasting. The minister gave the assurance on Thursday in Abuja at the unveiling of the timetable for the roll-out of the DSO across the country. Mohammed who is the Chairman of the Ministerial Task Force overseeing the successful completion of the project said a...

Acting Director-General of the National Broadcasting Commission (NBC), Professor Armstrong Idachaba, has dismissed insinuations that poor conception, corruption, mismanagement and bad leadership were responsible for the country not meeting the dates set for the Digital Switch Over (DSO).

The National Broadcasting Commission (NBC) says the Digital Switch Over (DSO) project will be completed by the middle of 2022 when the country will fully